The memory of the just {is} blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: {aloud: Chaldee, with might}

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

I have said to corruption, Thou {art} my father: to the worm, {Thou art} my mother, and my sister. {said: Heb. cried, or, called}

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this {is} also vanity.

{They are} dead, they shall not live; {they are} deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

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.

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

And {though} after my skin {worms} destroy this {body}, yet in my flesh shall I see God: {And...: or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh}

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

For {there are} no bands in their death: but their strength {is} firm. {firm: Heb. fat}

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

I have said to corruption, Thou {art} my father: to the worm, {Thou art} my mother, and my sister. {said: Heb. cried, or, called}

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.