12. just so, when a man is fallen asleep, he will not rise again, until the heavens are worn away; he will not awaken, nor rise from his sleep.
13. Who will grant this to me, that you will protect me in the underworld, and hide me until your fury passes by, and establish a time for me, in which you will remember me?
14. Do you suppose that a dead man will live again? On each of the days in which I now battle, I wait until my transformation occurs.
15. You will call me and I will answer you; to the work of your hands, you will extend your right hand.
16. Indeed, you have numbered my steps, but you have been lenient with my sins.
17. You have sealed up my offenses, as if in a purse, but you have cured my iniquity.
18. A falling mountain flows away, and a stone is transferred from its place.
19. Waters wear away stones, and with a flood the land is reduced little by little; and similarly, you will destroy man.
20. You have strengthened him for a little while, so that he may cross over into eternity. You will change his face and send him forth.
21. Whether his sons have been noble or ignoble, he will not understand.
22. And in this way his body, while he yet lives, will have grief, and his soul will mourn over himself.