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then had I been at rest—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>With kings and counsellors of the earth,</div><div class="po2">Who built up waste places for themselves;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Or with princes that had gold,</div><div class="po2">Who filled their houses with silver;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been;</div><div class="po2">As infants that never saw light.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>There the wicked cease from troubling;</div><div class="po2">And there the weary are at rest.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>There the prisoners are at ease together;</div><div class="po2">They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The small and great are there alike;</div><div class="po2">And the servant is free from his master.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery,</div><div class="po2">And life unto the bitter in soul—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Who long for death, but it cometh not;</div><div class="po2">And dig for it more than for hid treasures;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Who rejoice unto exultation,</div><div class="po2">And are glad, when they can find the grave?—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>To a man whose way is hid,</div><div class="po2">And whom God hath hedged in?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For my sighing cometh instead of my food,</div><div class="po2">And my roarings are poured out like water.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For the thing which I did fear is come upon me,</div><div class="po2">And that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I was not at ease, neither was I quiet,</div><div class="po2">Neither had I rest; 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