Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass beyond it.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; everyone shall drag along after him, as countless ones before him.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you have been taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

For we die the death and are like water poured on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a soul; but has devised plans, so that His banished ones are not thrust away from Him.

No one has power over the spirit to restrain the spirit; nor power in the day of death; and there is no discharge from that war; nor shall wickedness deliver its owners.

For the living know that they shall die; but the dead do not know anything, nor do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

also they are afraid of the heights, and terrors along the way, and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper is a burden, and desire fails; because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

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