He will still join his fathers’ company, who will never see the light.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s rage subsided.
before I depart, and never return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
Is not their tent cord pulled out, so that they die without wisdom.’”
Their inward thought is: Their houses are eternal, their dwellings for generation after generation. They name their lands after themselves.
For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness— for there will be many. Everything to come is obscure.