²² “Only a few years will pass
    before I take the path of no return.^(A)

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

¹⁴ If someone dies, will they live again?
    All the days of my hard service^(A)
    I will wait for my renewal^[a](B) to come.

⁵ A person’s days are determined;^(A)
    you have decreed the number of his months^(B)
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.^(C)

⁹ As a cloud vanishes^(A) and is gone,
    so one who goes down to the grave^(B) does not return.^(C)
10 He will never come to his house again;
    his place^(D) will know him no more.^(E)

⁵ when people are afraid of heights
    and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
    and the grasshopper drags itself along
    and desire no longer is stirred.
Then people go to their eternal home^(A)
    and mourners^(B) go about the streets.