Job 3:11-26

11 “Why ^adid I not die at birth,
come out from the womb and expire?
12 Why did ^bthe knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth
who ^crebuilt ruins for themselves,
15 or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
16 Or why was I not as a hidden ^dstillborn child,
as infants who never see the light?
17 There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary are at ^erest.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
they hear not the voice of ^fthe taskmaster.
19 The small and the great are there,
and the slave is free from his master.
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to ^gthe bitter in soul,
21 who ^hlong for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for ⁱhidden treasures,
22 who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose ^jway is hidden,
whom God has ^khedged in?
24 For my sighing comes ^linstead of ^{▼▼Or like; Hebrew before} my bread,
and my ⁿgroanings are poured out like water.
25 ^oFor the thing that I fear comes upon me,
and what I dread befalls me.
26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have no rest, but trouble comes.”