Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
They were broken in pieces, nation against nation and city against city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem; and he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come.
He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
he will perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
Again I passed by, and lo, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
Look away from me, that I may know gladness, before I depart and be no more!”
that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.