¹³ If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

²⁵ The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

²⁶ It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

² He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

¹⁴ Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

17 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

¹⁴ If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

²¹ Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

²² A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

¹³ For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,