¹² May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

⁵ The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

¹³ Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

¹² But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

²² And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

¹⁰ And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

¹⁶ Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

³ The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

⁵ My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

¹² I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

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.