^{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.