⁹ A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

²³ But now that the child is dead there is no reason for me to go without food; am I able to make him come back to life? I will go to him, but he will never come back to me.

¹⁵ Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

²² For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

¹⁰ But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

¹¹ The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

¹² So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

¹³ If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

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.

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

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 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

¹¹ The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

⁸ They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

¹⁴ For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.