^{13 Ref} For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

^{14 Ref} With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

^{15 Ref} Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

^{16 Ref} Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

^{17 Ref} There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

^{18 Ref} There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

^{19 Ref} The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.