⁹ As ^(A)the cloud fades and vanishes,
    so he who ^(B)goes down to Sheol does not come up;

^13 (A)Look away from me, that I may smile again,
    ^(B)before I depart and ^(C)am no more!”

^15 (A)Terrors are turned upon me;
    my honor is pursued as by the wind,
    and my prosperity has passed away like ^(B)a cloud.

²² For when a few years have come
    I shall go the way ^(A)from which I shall not return.

¹⁰ But a man dies and is laid low;
    man breathes his last, and ^(A)where is he?
^11 (B)As waters fail from a lake
    and a river wastes away and dries up,
¹² so a man lies down and rises not again;
    till ^(C)the heavens are no more he will not awake
    or be ^(D)roused out of his sleep.
¹³ Oh that you would ^(E)hide me in ^(F)Sheol,
    that you would ^(G)conceal me ^(H)until your wrath be past,
    that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
¹⁴ If a man dies, shall he live again?
    All the days of my ^(I)service I would ^(J)wait,
    till my renewal^[a] should come.

²¹ before I go—and ^(A)I shall not return—
    to the land of ^(B)darkness and ^(C)deep shadow,

¹¹ I said, I shall not see the Lord,
    the Lord ^(A)in the land of the living;
I shall look on man no more
    among the inhabitants of the world.