For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest

Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses [with] silver;

There the wicked cease [from] troubling, And there the weary are at rest.

The small and great are there, And the servant [is] free from his master.

The righteous perishes, And no man takes [it] to heart; Merciful men [are] taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil.

He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, [Each one] walking [in] his uprightness.

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: 'Blessed [are] the dead who die in the Lord from now on.' " "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them."

For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways.

In [their] hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

"The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked [one.]

"Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age.

"and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

"And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

"And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.

Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, "Lord, who is the one who betrays You?"

"But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?'

They spend their days in wealth, And in a moment go down to the grave.

For the wicked are reserved for the day of doom; They shall be brought out on the day of wrath.

Yet he shall be brought to the grave, And a vigil kept over the tomb.

Those who trust in their wealth And boast in the multitude of their riches,

For the redemption of their souls [is] costly, And it shall cease forever --

For he sees wise men die; Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish, And leave their wealth to others.

Nevertheless man, [though] in honor, does not remain; He is like the beasts [that] perish.

Do not be afraid when one becomes rich, When the glory of his house is increased;

Though while he lives he blesses himself (For [men] will praise you when you do well for yourself),

Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.

As a dream when [one] awakes, [So,] Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image.

The wicked is banished in his wickedness, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.

who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed.

And when he had gone in, he ate and drank. Then he said, "Go now, see to this accursed [woman,] and bury her, for she was a king's daughter."

So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of [her] hands.

Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also [is] vanity.

"All the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house;

'What have you here, and whom have you here, That you have hewn a sepulcher here, [As] he who hews himself a sepulcher on high, Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock?