³³ The soil in the valley is sweet to them;^(A)
    everyone follows after them,
    and a countless throng goes^[a] before them.^(B)

²³ I know you will bring me down to death,^(A)
    to the place appointed for all the living.^(B)

⁷ and the dust returns^(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God^(B) who gave it.^(C)

⁸ As no one has power over the wind to contain it,
    so^[a] no one has power over the time of their death.
As no one is discharged in time of war,
    so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

⁴ Generations come and generations go,
    but the earth remains forever.^(A)

²⁴ For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;^(A)
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;^(B)
    they are cut off like heads of grain.^(C)

¹⁶ Will it go down to the gates of death?^(A)
    Will we descend together into the dust?”^(B)

²² who are filled with gladness
    and rejoice when they reach the grave?^(A)