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

⁵ when people are afraid of heights
    and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
    and the grasshopper drags itself along
    and desire no longer is stirred.
Then people go to their eternal home^(A)
    and mourners^(B) go about the streets.

⁶ Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,
    and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
    and the wheel broken at the well,
⁷ and the dust returns^(C) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God^(D) who gave it.^(E)

⁵ For the living know that they will die,
    but the dead know nothing;^(A)
they have no further reward,
    and even their name^(B) is forgotten.^(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.

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

⁵ A person’s days are determined;^(A)
    you have decreed the number of his months^(B)
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.^(C)

⁸ “Your hands shaped^(A) me and made me.
    Will you now turn and destroy me?^(B)

²² It is all the same; that is why I say,
    ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’^(A)