{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, {and} my feet from falling.

Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, {yet} judgment {is} before him; therefore trust thou in him.

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

But I {was} like a lamb {or} an ox {that} is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, {saying}, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. {the tree...: Heb. the stalk with his bread}

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of {thy} dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. {destroy...: Heb. beat thee down}

Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. {terror: or, dismaying}

Before I go {whence} I shall not return, {even} to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. {a broken...: Heb. a vessel that perisheth}

{As} the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no {more}.

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.