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23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”(A)

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Chapter 2

    For, not thinking rightly, they said among themselves:[a]
“Brief and troubled is our lifetime;(A)
    there is no remedy for our dying,
    nor is anyone known to have come back from Hades.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:1–20 In this speech the wicked deny survival after death and indeed invite death by their evil deeds.