²² Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

¹⁶ When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

¹¹ They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon,"{"Abaddon" is a Hebrew word that means ruin, destruction, or the place of destruction} but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."{"Apollyon" means "Destroyer."}

¹⁰ Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

²³ Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

¹⁰ I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

³ For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

⁴ I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

⁵ Set apart among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

³ Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

⁴ As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, My life shall see the light.'

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

¹⁴ If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

¹⁵ Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁶ Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"

¹ "My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

²¹ A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

⁷ Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

⁶ Yahweh kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

²³ For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.