Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

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

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.