14. with kings and counselors of the earthwho built for themselves places now desolate,
15. or with princes who possessed gold,who filled their palaces with silver.
16. Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant,like infants who have never seen the light?
17. There the wicked cease from turmoil,and there the weary are at rest.
18. There the prisoners relax together;they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
19. Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
20. “Why does God give light to one who is in misery,and life to those whose soul is bitter,
21. to those who wait for death that does not come,and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
22. who rejoice even to jubilation,and are exultant when they find the grave?
23. Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,and whom God has hedged in?