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

⁷ For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;

¹⁹ He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

⁴³ It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power:

²⁴ And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.

²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

³ And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

¹⁴ For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

¹⁵ And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

¹⁴ With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

²¹ With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.