He also loads the thick clouds with moisture; He scatters His bright clouds;

before I go and not return; to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

But a strong man dies and is laid away; indeed man expires and where is he?

so man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be aroused from their sleep.

If a man dies, shall he revive? All the days of my service I will wait, until my change comes.

For when the number of years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

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.

Look away from me, that I may regain strength before I go away and be no more.

I said, I shall not see YAH, Jehovah, in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.