For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
