²² For when a few years have come,
    I shall go the way from which I shall not return.^(A)

¹⁰ But mortals die and are laid low;
    humans expire, and where are they?^(A)

¹⁴ If mortals die, will they live again?
    All the days of my service I would wait
    until my release should come.^(A)

⁵ Since their days are determined,
    and the number of their months is known to you,
    and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,^(A)

⁹ As the cloud fades and vanishes,
    so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;^(A)
10 they return no more to their houses,
    nor do their places know them any more.^(B)