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

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

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

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

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

^{18 Ref} There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.

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