who are filled with gladness and rejoice when finding the grave?
to those who long for death, but it does not come, who dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
The soil in the valley is sweet to him; everyone follows after him, and countless are those before him.
So death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family that remains in all the places to which I have driven them.” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
Oh that my request would be realized, that God would grant my hope;
Then I would still be comforted, even rejoice in spite of unrelenting pain, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
so that my soul prefers strangulation, and my bones death.
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their only hope is their dying breath.”
So I considered the dead, who are already dead, more fortunate than the living, who are still alive.
Yet better than both is one who has not yet been, who has never seen the evil work that is done under the sun.