Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man—

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Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

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We are consumed by your anger
    and terrified by your indignation.
You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins(A) in the light of your presence.(B)
All our days pass away under your wrath;
    we finish our years with a moan.(C)

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For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along,(A)
    like a stillborn child(B) that never sees the sun.

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As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

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14 “Mortals, born of woman,(A)
    are of few days(B) and full of trouble.(C)

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14 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

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10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me
    to hide trouble from my eyes.

11 “Why did I not perish at birth,
    and die as I came from the womb?(A)
12 Why were there knees to receive me(B)
    and breasts that I might be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down(C) in peace;
    I would be asleep and at rest(D)

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10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

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

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