⁹ “What is gained if I am silenced,
    if I go down to the pit?^(A)
Will the dust praise you?
    Will it proclaim your faithfulness?^(B)

¹² let’s swallow^(A) them alive, like the grave,
    and whole, like those who go down to the pit;^(B)

¹⁴ Therefore Death^(A) expands its jaws,
    opening wide its mouth;^(B)
into it will descend their nobles and masses
    with all their brawlers and revelers.^(C)