For the grave cannot praise thee, death can {not} celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. {recall...: Heb. make to return to my heart}

And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that {would come} from thence.

For what {is} the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: {so doth} the grave {those which} have sinned. {consume: Heb. violently take}

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.