who rejoice exceedingly, and they are glad when they find the grave?
who look for death, but it is not there; and they search for it more than for hidden treasures;
And why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
The clods of the valley will be sweet unto him; and everyone will follow him, as countless have gone before.
Death will be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family, which remains in all the places wherever I have driven them, says the Lord of Hosts.
“Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Then I would still have comfort; I would revel in pain; it will not subside, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
so that my soul chooses strangling, even death rather than my life.
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and they will not escape, and their hope will be as the giving up of breath.”
And I thought that the dead, who had already died, were more fortunate than the living, who were still alive.
But better than both is the one who has not been, who will not observe the evil deeds that are done under the sun.