¹⁰ They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

⁶ Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

⁷ Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;

⁸ (Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)

⁹ So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

¹⁰ For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

¹¹ The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

¹² But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

¹³ This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)

¹⁴ Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

²⁰ Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

⁶ I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High:

⁷ But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth.

¹⁶ Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

²¹ The strong among the great ones will say to him from the underworld, Are you more beautiful than any? go down, you and your helpers, and take your rest among those without circumcision, and those who have been put to the sword.

²⁰ And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,

²¹ Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.

²² And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.

²³ And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.