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

¹¹ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
    and the sound of your harps;
maggots are the bed beneath you,
    and worms are your covering.^(A)

¹¹ Their bodies, once full of youth,
    will lie down in the dust with them.^(A)

¹⁸ There the prisoners are at ease together;
    they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
¹⁹ The small and the great are there,
    and the slaves are free from their masters.

¹⁴ Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
    Death shall be their shepherd;
straight to the grave they descend,^[a]
    and their form shall waste away;
    Sheol shall be their home.^[b](A)

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

²⁶ and after my skin has been destroyed,
    then in my flesh I shall see God,^(A)

¹⁴ if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’^(A)