[It is] better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the banquet house. Since this is the end of every man, and the living man will apply good [warning] to his heart.

For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house [appointed] for every mortal.

And just as it is appointed for men once to die, and after this judgment,

and though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; and if they be few, he is not aware.

For in death no man remembers You; and who will give You thanks in Hades?

Will You work wonders for the dead? Or shall physicians raise [them] up, that they shall praise You?

Shall anyone declare Your mercy in the tomb? And Your truth in destruction?

For You are our Father; for [though] Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do You, O Lord, our Father, deliver us; Your name has been upon us from the beginning.

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.

The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: your eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

And he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth.

But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise [them] up; therefore You have brought [wrath] upon [them], and slain [them], and have taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;