Olam 2

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants <i>which</i> never saw light.

There the wicked cease <i>from</i> troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

<i>There</i> the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

The small and great are there; and the servant <i>is</i> free from his master.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter <i>in</i> soul;

Which long for death, but it <i>cometh</i> not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Which rejoice exceedingly, <i>and</i> are glad, when they can find the grave?

<i>Why is light given</i> to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

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