Job 3:11-22

11“Why didn’t I die as soon as I was born and breathe my last breath when I came out of the womb?

12Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse?

13Instead of being alive, I would now be quietly lying down. I would now be sleeping peacefully.

14I would be with the kings and the counselors of the world who built for themselves ⌞what are now⌟ ruins.

15I would be with princes who had gold, who filled their homes with silver.

16I would be buried like a stillborn baby. I would not exist. I would be like infants who never saw the light.

17There the wicked stop their raging. There the weary are able to rest.

18There the captives have no troubles at all. There they do not hear the shouting of the slave driver.

19There ⌞you find⌟ both the unimportant and important people. There the slave is free from his master.

20“Why give light to one in misery and life to those who find it so bitter,

21to those who long for death but it never comes— though they dig for it more than for buried treasure?

22They are ecstatic, delighted to find the grave.