And so David said, “For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, like all our fathers; our days on earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope” (Divrei HaYamim I 29:15). But has it not already been said, “Hope to Hashem and keep His way” (Tehillim 37:34)? Then what does it teach by saying, “and there is no hope”? David said: Ribbono shel Olam, in every condition a person hopes. If he is poor, he hopes until he grows rich. If he is weak, he hopes to become strong. One who is sick hopes until he is healed. One held in prison hopes until they set him free. But on the day of death he has no hope of being saved from it; for HaKadosh Baruch Hu spoke with Moshe face to face, and [yet] he could not save himself from death.