⁵ For the living know that they will die,
    but the dead know nothing;^(A)
they have no further reward,
    and even their name^(B) is forgotten.^(C)

¹⁴ They are now dead,^(A) they live no more;
    their spirits^(B) do not rise.
You punished them and brought them to ruin;^(C)
    you wiped out all memory of them.^(D)

¹¹ No one remembers the former generations,^(A)
    and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
    by those who follow them.^(B)

⁵ Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
    Who praises you from the grave?^(A)

²¹ If their children are honored, they do not know it;
    if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.^(A)

¹⁶ For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;^(A)
    the days have already come when both have been forgotten.^(B)
Like the fool, the wise too must die!^(C)

¹⁰ Do you show your wonders to the dead?
    Do their spirits rise up and praise you?^(A)
11 Is your love declared in the grave,
    your faithfulness^(B) in Destruction^[a]?
¹² Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,
    or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

¹⁵ May their sins always remain before^(A) the Lord,
    that he may blot out their name^(B) from the earth.