⁹ As the cloud disappears and vanishes away,
So ^(A)he who goes down to the grave does not come up.

^13 (A)Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,
Before I go away and ^(B)am no more.”

¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me;
They pursue my honor as the wind,
And my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

²² For when a few years are finished,
I shall ^(A)go the way of no return.

¹⁰ But man dies and ^[a]is laid away;
Indeed he ^[b]breathes his last
And where is ^(A)he?
¹¹ As water disappears from the sea,
And a river becomes parched and dries up,
¹² So man lies down and does not rise.
^(B)Till the heavens are no more,
They will not awake
Nor be roused from their sleep.

²¹ Before I go to the place from which I shall not return,
^(A)To the land of darkness ^(B)and the shadow of death,

¹¹ I said,
“I shall not see ^[a]Yah,
The Lord ^(A)in the land of the living;
I shall observe man no more ^[b]among the inhabitants of ^[c]the world.