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,
21. Who long and wait for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22. Who rejoice exceedingly and are elated when they find the grave?