And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.
That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:
To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?
He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus. And he shall draw every man after him; and there are innumerable before him.
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall remain of this wicked kindred, in all places which are left, to which I have cast them out, saith the Lord of hosts.
Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?
And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not: nor I contradict the words of the Holy One.
So that my soul rather chooseth hanging: and my bones death.
But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.
And I praised the dead rather than the living:
And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.