17. There the wicked will have stopped causing trouble,and there the exhausted will rest.
18. Captives will relax together;they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
19. The small and great, they are there,and the servant is free from his master.
20. “Why is light given to the miserable,and life unto the bitter in soul,
21. who look for death, but it is not there;and they search for it more than for hidden treasures;
22. who rejoice exceedingly,and they are glad when they find the grave?
23. And why is light given to a manwhose way is hidden,whom God has hedged in?
24. For my sighing comes before I eat,and my groaning pours forth like the waters.
25. For the thing which I greatly feared has happened to me,and that which I dreaded has come to me.
26. I am not at peace; I have no quiet,I cannot rest, and turmoil has come.”