²⁸ And gradually he died in a good old age,+ satisfied with days, riches+ and glory;+ and Sol′o·mon his son began to reign in place of him.+

14 “Man,* born of woman,+

Is short-lived+ and glutted with agitation.+

⁵ Also, they have become afraid merely at what is high, and there are terrors in the way. And the almond tree carries blossoms,+ and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry bursts, because man* is walking to his long-lasting house+ and the wailers have marched around in the street;+

³⁶ For David,+ on the one hand, served the express will of God in his own generation and fell asleep [in death] and was laid with his forefathers and did see corruption.+