The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”
who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
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