“Inquire, please, of past generations,
And consider and apply yourself to the things searched out by their fathers.

“If he is snatched from his place [in the garden],
Then his place will forget him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

‘Your hands have formed and made me altogether.
Would You [turn around and] destroy me?

So man lies down and does not rise [again].
Until the heavens are no longer,
The dead will not awake nor be raised from their sleep.

“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too was formed out of the clay.