13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
14If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
15At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
16For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.
17My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.
18But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;
19The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.
