Job 3:13-26 ▼

13 For now I should have been laid in the grave and been quiet, I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,

14 With kings and governors of the earth who built desolate places for themselves;

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

16 Or like a hidden untimely birth, as if I had not been; like infants that never saw the light.

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

18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

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

20 Why is light given to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul,

21 Who long for death, but it comes not, and seek it as one seeks a hidden treasure;

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, whom God has hedged in?

24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my moanings are poured out like water.

25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has befallen me.

26 I am not at ease, neither am I calm, nor am I at rest; and yet misfortune came.