¹³ For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me,

⁸ The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes `are' upon me -- and I am not.

⁹ Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.

¹⁰ He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.

³ If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he `is' the untimely birth.'

⁴ For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

⁵ Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.

²³ This `one' dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.

¹³ They wear out in good their days, And in a moment `to' Sheol go down.

²⁷ Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

¹³ If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

¹⁰ And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where `is' he?

¹¹ Waters have gone away from a sea, And a river becometh waste and dry.

¹² And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.

²² A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

²¹ Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

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.