Job Wishes He Had Died

• 11 “Why did I not die at[fn] birth? Why did I not come forth from the womb and expire?
• 12 Why did the knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?
• 13 For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest[fn]
• 14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who rebuild[fn] ruins for themselves,
• 15 or with high officials who have gold ,[fn] who fill up their houses with silver.
• 16 Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants who did not see the light?
• 17 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary[fn] are at rest;
• 18 the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the oppressor’s voice.
• 19 The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his masters.[fn]