¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.

⁹ The eye which saw him shall see him no more, Neither shall his place any more see him.

²⁴ Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

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

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.

¹⁸ If he is destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'

¹⁹ Behold, this is the joy of his way: Out of the earth shall others spring.

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

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.

²¹ The east wind carries him away, and he departs; It sweeps him out of his place.