16. Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants who did not see the light?
17. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest;
18. the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the oppressor’s voice.
19. The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his masters.
20. “Why does he give light to one in misery and life to those bitter of soul,
21. who wait for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than for treasures,
22. who rejoice exceedingly, and they are glad when they find the grave?
23. Why does he give light to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in all around?
24. For my sighing comes before my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water
25. because the dread that I feel has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me.
26. I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come.”