For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

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

a land of darkness and gloom, as the shadow of death, without any order; where it shines as darkness.

And they shall look to the land; and behold, trouble and darkness and gloom of anguish! And they shall be thrust into darkness.

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

raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness 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 more than of the fool forever, since that which is now shall all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise man die? Same as the fool!

And so I saw the wicked buried, they who had come and gone from the consecrated place. And they were forgotten in the city where they had done so. This also is vanity.

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.