⁹ As a cloud vanishes^(A) and is gone,
    so one who goes down to the grave^(B) does not return.^(C)

¹³ Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
    before I depart and am no more.”^(A)

¹⁵ Terrors^(A) overwhelm me;^(B)
    my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
    my safety vanishes like a cloud.^(C)

²² “Only a few years will pass
    before I take the path of no return.^(A)

¹⁰ But a man dies and is laid low;^(A)
    he breathes his last and is no more.^(B)
11 As the water of a lake dries up
    or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,^(C)
12 so he lies down and does not rise;^(D)
    till the heavens are no more,^(E) people will not awake
    or be roused from their sleep.^(F)

¹³ “If only you would hide me in the grave^(G)
    and conceal me till your anger has passed!^(H)
If only you would set me a time
    and then remember^(I) me!^(J)
14 If someone dies, will they live again?
    All the days of my hard service^(K)
    I will wait for my renewal^[a](L) to come.

²¹ before I go to the place of no return,^(A)
    to the land of gloom and utter darkness,^(B)

¹¹ I said, “I will not again see the Lord himself^(A)
    in the land of the living;^(B)
no longer will I look on my fellow man,
    or be with those who now dwell in this world.