[The] small and [the] great [are] there, and [the] slave [is] free from his masters.

Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.

"Even I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's bitterness.

So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.

"My inner self loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint}; I want to speak out of [the] bitterness of my inner self.

He feels only the pain of his own body, and his inner self mourns for him."

The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

Yet another dies with a bitter inner self and has not tasted prosperity.

"{As God lives}, he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self bitter.

"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,

{so that} his life loathes bread, and his inner self [loathes] {appetizing food}.

Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?