11  As waters fail from a lake

and a river wastes away and dries up,

12  so a man lies down and rises not again;

till the heavens are no more he will not awake

or be roused out of his sleep.

13  ^pOh that you would hide me in Sheol,

that you would conceal me until your wrath be past,

that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14  If a man dies, shall he live again?

All the days of my ^qservice I would wait,

till my renewal¹ should come.

15  ^rYou would call, and I would answer you;

you would long for the work of your hands.

16  For then you would ^snumber my steps;

^tyou would not keep watch over my sin;

17  my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,

and you would cover over my iniquity.

18  “But the mountain falls and crumbles away,

and ^uthe rock is removed from its place;

19  the waters wear away the stones;

the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;

so you destroy the hope of man.

20  You prevail forever against him, and he passes;

you change his countenance, and send him away.

21  His sons come to honor, and ^vhe does not know it;

they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

22  He feels only the pain of his own body,

and he mourns only for himself.”