10. Because it shut not the doors of my mother's womb nor hid sorrow and trouble from my eyes.
11. Why was I not stillborn? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bore me?
12. Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
13. For then would I have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then would I have been at rest [in death]
14. With kings and counselors of the earth, who built up [now] desolate ruins for themselves,
15. Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16. Or [why] was I not a miscarriage, hidden and put away, as infants who never saw light?
17. There [in death] the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
18. There the [captive] prisoners rest together; they hear not the taskmaster's voice.
19. The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master. [Jer. 20:14-18.]
20. Why is light [of life] given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,