²³ But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

¹³ For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

²² When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

¹³ O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

⁵ Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: