14. With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:
15. Or with princes, that possess gold, and All their houses with silver:
16. Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.
17. There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.
18. And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard 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 them that are in bitterness of soul?
21. That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:
22. And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.
23. To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?
24. Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
25. For the fear which I feared hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.
26. Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.