³³ The clods of the valley are sweet to them;
    everyone will follow after,
    and those who went before are innumerable.^(A)

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

⁴ A generation goes, and a generation comes,
    but the earth remains forever.^(A)

²⁴ They are exalted a little while and then are gone;
    they wither and fade like the mallow;^[a]
    they are cut off like the heads of grain.^(A)

¹⁶ Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
    Shall we descend together into the dust?”^(A)

²² who rejoice exceedingly
    and are glad when they find the grave?

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling,
    and there the weary are at rest.^(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.