Job 3:13-23

13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept; then would I have been at rest
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves,
15 or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, as infants who never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
20 "Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul,
21 who long for death but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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