13. For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14. With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
15. Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16. Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
18. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20. Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
21. Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22. Who 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 the waters.
25. For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
26. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.