15. or with princes who had gold,who filled their houses with silver:
16. or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,as infants who never saw light.
17. There the wicked cease from troubling.There the weary are at rest.
18. There the prisoners are at ease together.They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19. The small and the great are there.The servant is free from his master.
20. “Why is light given to him who is in misery,life to the bitter in soul,
21. Who long for death, but it doesn’t come;and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22. who rejoice exceedingly,and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23. Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,whom God has hedged in?
24. For my sighing comes before I eat.My groanings are poured out like water.
25. For the thing which I fear comes on me,That which I am afraid of comes to me.
26. I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;but trouble comes.”