And he dwelleth in desolate cities, {and} in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

What man {is he that} liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. {beauty: or, strength} {in the grave from...: or, the grave being an habitation to every one of them}

Woe unto them that join house to house, {that} lay field to field, till {there be} no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! {they: Heb. ye}

And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. {Rehoboam: Gr. Roboam}

When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

Damascus {was} thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

And {they that shall be} of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

For I know {that} thou wilt bring me {to} death, and {to} the house appointed for all living.

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

{There is} no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither {hath he} power in the day of death: and {there is} no discharge in {that} war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. {discharge: or, casting off weapons}

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, {and} in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, {as} he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, {and} that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? {as...: or, O he}

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.