13 For now I would be lying down(A) in peace;
    I would be asleep and at rest(B)
14 with kings and rulers of the earth,(C)
    who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,(D)
15 with princes(E) who had gold,
    who filled their houses with silver.(F)
16 Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,(G)
    like an infant who never saw the light of day?(H)
17 There the wicked cease from turmoil,(I)
    and there the weary are at rest.(J)

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13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

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

16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

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

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