²⁶ Side by side they lie in the dust,^(A)
    and worms^(B) cover them both.^(C)

¹¹ All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,^(A)
    along with the noise of your harps;^(B)
maggots are spread out beneath you
    and worms^(C) cover you.^(D)

As it is with the good,
    so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
    so with those who are afraid to take them.^(A)

¹¹ The youthful vigor^(A) that fills his bones^(B)
    will lie with him in the dust.^(C)

¹⁸ Captives^(A) also enjoy their ease;
    they no longer hear the slave driver’s^(B) shout.^(C)
19 The small and the great are there,^(D)
    and the slaves are freed from their owners.

¹⁴ They are like sheep and are destined^(A) to die;^(B)
    death will be their shepherd
    (but the upright will prevail^(C) over them in the morning).
Their forms will decay in the grave,
    far from their princely mansions.

²⁰ The womb forgets them,
    the worm^(A) feasts on them;^(B)
the wicked are no longer remembered^(C)
    but are broken like a tree.^(D)

²⁶ And after my skin has been destroyed,
    yet^[a] in^[b] my flesh I will see God;^(A)

¹⁴ if I say to corruption,^(A) ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm,^(B) ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’