Drought and heat snatch away snow waters – She’ol those who have sinned.
They spend their days in goodness, and in a moment go down to She’ol.
One dies in his perfect strength, completely at ease and satisfied;
For now I would have been lying in peace. I would have slept – then I would have been at rest,
Like sheep they shall be laid in She’ol; Death shall shepherd them; And the upright rule over them in the morning; And their form is consumed in She’ol, Far from their dwelling.
As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, The wrong perish before Elohim.
By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.
“But Elohim said to him, ‘You mindless one! This night your life shall be demanded from you. And who shall own what you have prepared?’
“And it came to be that the beggar died, and was carried by the messengers to the bosom of Aḇraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.