¹⁹ The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

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

² High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.

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.

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.

¹⁵ But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

¹⁶ Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;

¹⁷ For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

¹⁸ Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,

¹⁹ He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

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

⁸ No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

⁵ And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;

⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

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.

²⁷ And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;