¹² Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

⁵ For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

¹² but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth."

²² and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

¹⁰ So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

¹⁶ For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

³ For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

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.

¹² I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

²¹ Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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