¹¹ I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

¹³ I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁴ How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

¹⁵ And now ... ;

⁴ Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.

⁵ For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

²² And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

⁸ You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

⁹ I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.

⁵ The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

⁶ Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.