For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up; he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.
they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—
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