11. Why did I not come to mot at birth? Why did I not perish when I came out of the beten (belly, womb)?
12. Madua (why) were there birkayim to receive me? Or why the shadayim that from them I should nurse?
13. For atah (now) I would be lying still and quiet, have slept and been at rest,
14. With melachim and yo'atzim of ha'aretz, which build ruins for themselves;
15. Or with sarim (princes) that had zahav, who filled their batim (houses) with kesef;
16. Or as a hidden stillborn--I had not been!--as olelim which never saw ohr.
17. There the resha'im cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
18. There the asirim (prisoners, captives) rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19. The katon and gadol are there; and the eved is free from his adon.
20. Why is ohr given to him that is in misery, and chayyim unto the bitter in nefesh;
21. Which long for mavet, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;