²¹ For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

⁵ If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

²¹ His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

²³ But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

²⁴ I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

¹⁸ Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.

¹⁹ And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

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.