Job 3:13-26 ▼

13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest--

14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

15 Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver;

16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; As infants that never saw light.

17 There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

18 There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

19 The small and great are there alike; And the servant is free from his master.

20 Wherewith 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 hid treasures;

22 Who rejoice unto exultation, And are glad, when they can find the grave?--

23 To a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

24 For my sighing cometh instead of my food, And my roarings are poured out like water.

25 For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, And that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.

26 I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, Neither had I rest; but trouble came.