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?
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
[If] we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
