For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark [place], as those that have been long dead.

before I go to where I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can anyone] see the life of mortals.

and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that [no one] can see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a season.

but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

raging waves on the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the darkness of the netherworld has been reserved forever.

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

For there is no remembrance of the wise man with the fool forever; forasmuch as now [in] the coming days all things are forgotten. And how shall the wise man die with the fool?

And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, and [that] out of the holy place. And they departed, and were praised in the city, because they had done thus. This also is vanity.

For the living will know that they shall die; but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them, for their memory is lost.