Job 3:13-26 ▼

13 Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest,

14 Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places,

15 Or as the princes that haue had golde, and their houses full of siluer:

16 Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?

17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest:

18 There the prisoners rest together, they heare no more the voyce of the oppressour:

19 There are small and great, and the seruaunt is free from his maister.

20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes?

21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures:

22 Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue,

23 From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God?

24 For my sighes come before I eate, and my roringes are powred out like the water:

25 For the thing that I feared is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afrayde of is happened vnto me,

26 Was I not happy? Had I not quietnesse? Was I not in rest? And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me.