It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men; and the living will take it to heart.

For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

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

His sons come to honor, and he does not recognize them; they are diminished, and he does not perceive it.

For in death there is no remembrance of You; in Sheol who will give thanks to You?

Will You work wonders for the dead? Shall the dead arise and give thanks to You? Selah

Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

Indeed, You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O Jehovah, are our Father, our Redeemer; Your name is from everlasting.

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.

The eye of him who sees me shall watch me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I am not.

He shall never again return to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

Let them be continually before Jehovah, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Those who are dead do not live; spirits of the dead do not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.