For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others.
Their inward thought is, (that) their houses (shall continue) for ever, (And) their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.
But man (being) in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.
Thus saith God Jehovah, he that created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he that spread abroad the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.
The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. (Thus) saith Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him: