¹³ For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

⁸ The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

³ If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

⁴ for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

⁵ Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

²³ One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet.

¹³ They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

²⁷ Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,

¹⁰ But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

¹¹ As the waters fail from the sea, And the river wastes and dries up,

¹² So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

²² The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"

²¹ Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.