^{18 Ref} And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

^{19 Ref} From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

^{20 Ref} For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.