²² It is all the same; that is why I say,
    ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’^(A)

¹⁶ Will it go down to the gates of death?^(A)
    Will we descend together into the dust?”^(B)

³³ The soil in the valley is sweet to them;^(A)
    everyone follows after them,
    and a countless throng goes^[a] before them.^(B)

²⁴ For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;^(A)
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;^(B)
    they are cut off like heads of grain.^(C)

²³ I know you will bring me down to death,^(A)
    to the place appointed for all the living.^(B)

⁵ when people are afraid of heights
    and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
    and the grasshopper drags itself along
    and desire no longer is stirred.
Then people go to their eternal home^(A)
    and mourners^(B) go about the streets.