⁹ As a cloud vanishes^(A) and is gone,
    so one who goes down to the grave^(B) does not return.^(C)

¹⁶ For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;^(A)
    the days have already come when both have been forgotten.^(B)
Like the fool, the wise too must die!^(C)

⁵ For the living know that they will die,
    but the dead know nothing;^(A)
they have no further reward,
    and even their name^(B) is forgotten.^(C)