12. Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?
13. For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:
14. With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built up waste places for themselves;
15. Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16. Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18. There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21. Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22. Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23. Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24. For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like water.
25. For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
26. I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble cometh.