who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”
The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.
to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!
so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
So I considered those who are dead and gone more fortunate than those who are still alive.
But better than both is the one who has not been born and has not seen the evil things that are done on earth.
However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,” says the Lord who rules over all.