Job 3:11–26

¹¹Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

¹²Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?

¹³For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

¹⁴With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:

¹⁵Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with silver:

¹⁶Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.

¹⁷There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.

¹⁸And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard the voice of the oppressor.

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

²⁰Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?

²¹That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:

²²And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave?

²³To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?

²⁴Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

²⁵For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.

²⁶Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.