who rejoice exceedingly, they are glad when they find the grave?
who are waiting for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than treasures;
Why does He give light to a man whose way has been hidden, and whom Eloah has hedged in?
The clods of the wadi shall be sweet to him, and all men follow him, innumerable are those before him.
“And death shall be preferred to life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil people, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” declares יהוה of hosts.
Oh that I might have my desire, that Eloah would grant me what I long for!
Then I would still have comfort, and I would rejoice in pain, though not spared, for I have not hidden the words of the Set-apart One.
so that my being chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
But the eyes of the wrong are consumed, and they shall not escape, and their expectancy is the breathing out of life!”
Therefore I commended the dead who were already dead, more than the living who are still alive.
And better than both is he who has never existed, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.