¹⁰ But a man dies and is laid low;^(A)
    he breathes his last and is no more.^(B)

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

¹² so he lies down and does not rise;^(A)
    till the heavens are no more,^(B) people will not awake
    or be roused from their sleep.^(C)

⁷ Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;^(A)
    my eyes will never see happiness again.^(B)
8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;
    you will look for me, but I will be no more.^(C)
9 As a cloud vanishes^(D) and is gone,
    so one who goes down to the grave^(E) does not return.^(F)
10 He will never come to his house again;
    his place^(G) will know him no more.^(H)

³² When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down,^(A)
    but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.^(B)

¹³ If the only home I hope for is the grave,^(A)
    if I spread out my bed^(B) in the realm of darkness,^(C)
14 if I say to corruption,^(D) ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm,^(E) ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
¹⁵ where then is my hope—^(F)
    who can see any hope for me?^(G)
16 Will it go down to the gates of death?^(H)
    Will we descend together into the dust?”^(I)

²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked will fail,^(A)
    and escape will elude them;^(B)
    their hope will become a dying gasp.”^(C)