As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one descending into Sheol does not come up;
But now that he has died, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? It is I who will be going to him, but he will never return to me.”
For we will all surely die and be like water spilt on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life but rather, He devises plans so that a banished person may not remain an outcast from Him.
before I depart, and never return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
They are higher than the heavens —what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol —what can you know?
“For the number of years will come to pass, and then I will go the way of no return.
If I hope for Sheol as my home, if I make my bed in darkness,
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we descend together into the dust?”
For now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep and at rest
Terrors are turned on me; they chase away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance vanishes.
He loads the cloud with moisture; He scatters His cloud of lightning.
Hear my prayer, Adonai, and listen to my cry— do not keep silent at my tears. For with You I am an outsider, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
The dead do not live— dead souls do not rise. Thus You punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.
I said: “I will not see Adonai, Adonai, in the land of the living. I will look on humanity no longer among the inhabitants of the world.