Geneva(i)
11 Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?
12 Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?
13 For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,
14 With the Kings and counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:
15 Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.
16 Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?
17 The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.
18 The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.
19 There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.
20 Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?
21 Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:
22 Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.
23 Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24 For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.
25 For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me.
26 I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.