¹³ If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

¹³ For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

²¹ Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

²² A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

¹⁴ If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

¹ My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

²³ For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

¹⁴ Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.

⁸ If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

² They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

²⁵ The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.

²⁶ It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.