⁵⁵ “O^(A)[a] Death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?”

¹⁴ “I will ransom them from the ^[a]power of ^[b]the grave;
I will redeem them from death.
^(A)O Death, ^[c]I will be your plagues!
O ^[d]Grave, ^[e]I will be your destruction!
^(B)Pity is hidden from My eyes.”

¹⁵ So I said in my heart,
“As it happens to the fool,
It also happens to me,
And why was I then more wise?”
Then I said in my heart,
“This also is vanity.”
¹⁶ For there is ^(A)no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever,
Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come.
And how does a wise man die?
As the fool!

¹⁰ For he sees wise men die;
Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish,
And leave their wealth to others.
^11 [b]Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever,
Their dwelling places to all generations;
They ^(C)call their lands after their own names.
¹² Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not ^[c]remain;
He is like the beasts that perish.

¹³ This is the way of those who are ^(D)foolish,
And of their posterity who approve their sayings. Selah
¹⁴ Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
Death shall feed on them;
^(E)The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
^(F)And their beauty shall be consumed in ^[d]the grave, far from their dwelling.
¹⁵ But God ^(G)will redeem my soul from the power of ^[e]the grave,
For He shall ^(H)receive me. Selah