⁴ For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.

⁷ For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.

⁸ Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

⁹ Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

¹⁰ But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

¹¹ The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

¹² So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

⁸ For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

¹⁸ For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

²¹ This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.

²² It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.

²⁶ And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us.

²⁷ And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;

²⁸ For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.

²⁹ But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.