If there is a Mudcat proscription on Old Testament quotes,
then I'm in for it.

When I look at this, I hear Johannes Brahms, auf deutsch.

O Death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee
to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions,
unto the man that hath nothing to vex him,
and that hath prosperity in all things:
yea, unto him
that is yet able to receive meat!

O Death, acceptable is thy sentence
unto the needy, and unto him whose strength faileth,
that is now in the last age,
and is vexed with all things,
and to him that despaireth and hath lost patience!
--Ecclesiastes 41:1,2


Martin Luther's German is more touching somehow, in places:
O Tod! wie bitter bist du!
...O Tod, wie wohl thust du. Which means, O Death, how well you do.