For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest

不然，我就早已躺卧安睡，

不然，我现在已躺卧安睡，而且，早已长眠安息；

不然，我现在已躺卧安睡，而且，早已长眠安息；

不然我早已安然躺卧、长眠安息，

不然，我早已躺下安息，

不然，我就早已躺臥安睡，

不然，我現在已躺臥安睡，而且，早已長眠安息；

不然，我現在已躺臥安睡，而且，早已長眠安息；

不然我早已安然躺臥、長眠安息，

不然，我早已躺下安息，

不然、我就早已躺臥而靜寂，早已長眠而安息，

非然者、則已宴然而臥、安然而寢、

浸假當時無生、我今可宴然安寢、

若非如此、則久已偃臥安逸、長眠寧靜、

For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

If all of that hadn’t happened, I would be lying down in peace. I’d be asleep and at rest in the grave.

For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,

Had I died at birth, I would now be at peace. I would be asleep and at rest.

Now I would certainly be lying down in peace; I would be asleep. Then I would be at rest

For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

Now I would certainly be lying down in peace; I would be asleep. Then I would be at rest

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,

One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and secure;

If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he—for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man,

The eye of him who sees me will see me no more; While your eyes are upon me, I shall no longer be.As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, So he who goes down to the grave does not come up.He shall never return to his house, Nor shall his place know him anymore.

They spend their days in wealth, And in a moment go down to the grave.

Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

But man dies and is laid away; Indeed he breathes his last And where is he?As water disappears from the sea, And a river becomes parched and dries up,So man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, They will not awake Nor be roused from their sleep.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

A land as dark as darkness itself, As the shadow of death, without any order, Where even the light is like darkness.’”

Why then do You not pardon my transgression, And take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, And You will seek me diligently, But I will no longer be.”