27. Those who are alive can give thanks to the Lord, but can anyone in the world of the dead sing praise to the Most High?
28. A person who is alive and well can sing the Lord's praises, but the dead, who no longer exist, have no way to give him thanks.
29. How great is the Lord's merciful forgiveness of those who turn to him!
30. But this is not the nature of human beings; not one of us is immortal.
31. Nothing is brighter than the sun, but even the sun's light fails during an eclipse. How much easier it is for human thoughts to be eclipsed by evil!
32. The Lord can look out over all the stars in the sky. Human beings? They are dust and ashes.