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

²³ and now, he hath died, why `is' this -- I fast? am I able to bring him back again? I am going unto him, and he doth not turn back unto me.'

¹⁵ He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.

²² When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.

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.

¹³ O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

¹⁴ If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

²¹ Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

¹¹ I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.

¹³ Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

¹¹ Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

⁸ Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?

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.