Job 3:11-22

11Wherefore did I not die from the womb, — come forth from the belly and expire?

12Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

13For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,

15Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.

18The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

19The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.

20Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

21Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

22Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? —