^{11 Ref} Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

^{12 Ref} Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

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

^{14 Ref} With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

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

^{16 Ref} Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

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

^{18 Ref} There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

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

^{20 Ref} Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

^{21 Ref} Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

²² Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

^{23 Ref} Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

^{24 Ref} For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

^{25 Ref} For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

^{26 Ref} I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.