Job 3:11-19

New King James Version

¹¹ “Why^(A) did I not die at birth?
Why did I not ^[a]perish when I came from the womb?
^12 (B)Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
¹³ For now I would have lain still and been quiet,
I would have been asleep;
Then I would have been at rest
¹⁴ With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who ^(C)built ruins for themselves,
¹⁵ Or with princes who had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver;
¹⁶ Or why was I not hidden ^(D)like a stillborn child,
Like infants who never saw light?
¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling,
And there the ^[b]weary are at ^(E)rest.
¹⁸ There the prisoners ^[c]rest together;
^(F)They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
¹⁹ The small and great are there,
And the servant is free from his master.