²⁶ They ^(A)lie down alike in the dust,
    and ^(B)the worms cover them.

¹¹ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
    the sound of your harps;
maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,
    and worms are your covers.

¹¹ His bones are full of his ^(A)youthful vigor,
    but it will lie ^(B)down with him in the dust.

¹⁸ There the prisoners are at ease together;
    they hear not the voice of ^(A)the taskmaster.
¹⁹ The small and the great are there,
    and the slave is free from his master.

¹⁴ Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
    death shall be their shepherd,
and the upright ^(A)shall rule over them in the morning.
    ^(B)Their form shall be consumed ^(C)in Sheol, with no place to dwell.

²⁰ The womb forgets them;
    the worm finds them sweet;
they are ^(A)no longer remembered,
    so wickedness is broken like ^(B)a tree.’

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

¹⁴ if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’