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15 and with rulers once rich
    with silver and gold.
16 I wish I had been born dead
and then buried, never to see
    the light of day.
17 In the world of the dead,
the wicked and the weary rest
    without a worry.
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15 with princes(A) who had gold,
    who filled their houses with silver.(B)
16 Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,(C)
    like an infant who never saw the light of day?(D)
17 There the wicked cease from turmoil,(E)
    and there the weary are at rest.(F)

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