^{18 Ref} And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.

^{19 Ref} From the fulness of its passing over it taketh you, For morning by morning it passeth over, By day and by night, And it hath been only a trembling to consider the report.

^{20 Ref} For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one's self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one's self up in.