8. Let them curse it that curse the yam, who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
9. Let the kokhavim of the dawn thereof be dark; let it look for ohr, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the shachar,
10. Because it shut not up the dalatot of my mother's womb, nor hid amal (tzoros) from mine eyes.
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.