⁴⁸ Who can live and not see death,
    or who can escape the power of the grave?^(A)

¹⁵ But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead;^(A)
    he will surely take me to himself.^(B)

⁷ and the dust returns^(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God^(B) who gave it.^(C)

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)

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

²⁷ because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
    you will not let your holy one see decay.^(A)

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.