1. You built a fortress against death,
Thus gaining from it some safety.

2. Alas! Nay, death is sure
And burial unavoidable.

3. The darkness of this world
Will turn you over in the earth's belly.

4. You will come to dwell in a place
Closed on your pledge that was in it a pledge.

5. You saw groups of people
Whom the days ground with grinding.

6. The days did not cease alternating
Their people, generation after generation.

7. O you whose heir
Will strew dust and clay on you!

8. If tomorrow you were called to account
And weighing, you would be questioned.

9. In scales not your own you would see
What you had gathered and see a loss.