17. There the wicked stop their raging.There the weary are able to rest.
18. There the captives have no troubles at all.There they do not hear the shouting of the slave driver.
19. There ⌊you find⌋ both the unimportant and important people.There the slave is free from his master.
20. “Why give light to one in miseryand life to those who find it so bitter,
21. to those who long for death but it never comes—though they dig for it more than for buried treasure?
22. They are ecstatic,delighted to find the grave.
23. Why give light to those whose paths have been hidden,to those whom God has fenced in?
24. “When my food is in front of me, I sigh.I pour out my groaning like water.
25. What I fear most overtakes me.What I dread happens to me.
26. I have no peace!I have no quiet!I have no rest!And trouble keeps coming!”