¹⁸ For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

⁹ `What gain `is' in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

⁵ For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?

³³ and they go down, they, and all that they have, alive to Sheol, and the earth closeth over them, and they perish from the midst of the assembly;

²⁶ and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.

²⁷ `And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father,

²⁸ for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

²⁹ `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;

³⁰ and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform.

³¹ And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

⁴⁶ And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

¹² but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

³² In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is' the righteous.

¹⁷ The dead praise not Jah, Nor any going down to silence.

¹⁸ And we, we bless Jah, From henceforth, and unto the age. Praise ye Jah!

¹⁰ To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.

¹¹ Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction?