Job 3:11-19 - Job Wishes He Had Died

¹¹ Why didn't I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born? ¹² Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me? ¹³ "If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest, ¹⁴ along with kings and counselors of the earth, who used to build for themselves what are now only ruins, ¹⁵ or princes who amassed gold for themselves, and who kept filling their houses with silver. ¹⁶ "Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like babies who never saw the light? ¹⁷ In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest. ¹⁸ In that place, those who once were prisoners will be at ease together; they won't hear the voice of oppressors. ¹⁹ The unimportant and the important are both there, and the servant is free from his master.