²³ For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And `to' the house appointed for all living.

⁵ Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.

⁶ While that the silver cord is not removed, And the golden bowl broken, And the pitcher broken by the fountain, And the wheel broken at the well.

⁷ And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'

²⁷ and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,

⁵ For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

⁸ There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.

³³ Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.

⁵ If determined are his days, The number of his months `are' with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

⁸ Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!

²² It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'

¹⁹ Small and great `are' there the same. And a servant `is' free from his lord.

¹⁴ for we do surely die, and `are' as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.