Job 3:11-19

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹¹ Why was I not stillborn? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bore me?

¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

¹³ For then would I have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then would I have been at rest [in death]

¹⁴ With kings and counselors of the earth, who built up [now] desolate ruins for themselves,

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

¹⁶ Or [why] was I not a miscarriage, hidden and put away, as infants who never saw light?

¹⁷ There [in death] the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

¹⁸ There the [captive] prisoners rest together; they hear not the taskmaster’s voice.

¹⁹ The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.^(A)