"For I knowthat You will bringme to deathAnd to the houseof meetingfor allliving.
By the sweatof your faceYou will eatbread,Tillyou returnto the ground,Becausefrom it you were taken;For you are dust,And to dustyou shall return."
"For we will surelydieand are like waterspilledon the groundwhichcannotbe gatheredup again. Yet Goddoes not takeaway life,but planswaysso that the banishedonewill not be castout from him.
Your handsfashionedand mademe altogether,And would You destroyme?
"Sincehis daysare determined,The numberof his monthsis with You; And his limitsYou have setso that he cannotpass.
"The clodsof the valleywill gentlycoverhim; Moreover, allmenwill followafterhim, While countlessones [go] beforehim.
"The smalland the greatare there,And the slaveis freefrom his master.
"It is [all] one;thereforeI say,He destroysthe guiltlessand the wicked.'
Nomanhasauthorityto restrainthe windwith the wind,or authorityover the dayof death;and thereis nodischargein the timeof war,and evilwill not deliverthose whopracticeit.
For the livingknowthey will die;but the deaddo not knowanything,norhavethey anylongera reward,for their memoryis forgotten.
And inasmuchas it is appointedfor mento dieonceand afterthis[comes] judgment,
"Now behold,todayI am goingthe wayof allthe earth,and you knowin allyour heartsand in allyour soulsthat not onewordof allthe goodwordswhichthe LORDyour Godspokeconcerningyou has failed;allhave been fulfilledfor you, not oneof them has failed.
