They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they find the grave.
But the eyes of the wicked ones shall be consumed, and escape shall perish from them; and their hope shall be like the breathing out of the soul.
And the clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; and every man shall draw after him; and before him there is no number.
who is waiting for death, but it is not; and they dig for it more than for treasures?
To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.
And it is yet my comfort; and I would exult in pain not spared; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.
Who will give it that my desire might come, and God would grant my longing;
and my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my bones.
And I commended the ones who died, those who already have died, more than the living. that they are still alive.
Yea, better than both of them is that one who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the remnant of those who remain of this evil family, those who remain there in all the places there where I have driven them away, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts.