¹⁸ Your ·agreement [covenant; treaty] with death will be ·erased [annulled];
    your contract with ·death [or the grave; ^LSheol] will not ·help you [stand; last].
When ·terrible punishment [overwhelming scourge/flood] comes,
    you will be ·crushed [beaten down] by it.
¹⁹ Whenever ·punishment [^Lit] comes, it will take you away.
    It will come morning after morning;
    it will ·defeat you [sweep through] by day and by night.
Those who understand this punishment will be terrified.”
²⁰ ·You will be like the person who tried to sleep
    on a bed that was too short [^LFor the bed is too short to stretch out on]
and ·with a blanket that [^Lthe blanket] was too narrow
    to wrap around himself.