10. Because it did not shut the opening of my mother's womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.
11. "Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?
12. "Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
13. "For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
14. With kings and with counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
15. Or with princes who had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver.
16. "Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.
17. "There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.
18. "The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.