²² This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

¹⁶ They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

³³ The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

²⁴ They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

⁵ Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: