They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to the grave.
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
For there are no fetters in their death: but their strength is firm.
And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe: but they did not know that evil was near them.
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Which were cut down before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood:
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those who have sinned.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor devising, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, to which you go.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.