20 Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,
21 who expect death, and it does not arrive, like those who dig for treasure
22 and who rejoice greatly when they have found the grave,
23 to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has surrounded with darkness?
24 Before I eat, I sigh; and like overflowing waters, so is my howl,
25 for the terror that I feared has happened to me, and so has the dread befallen me.
26 Have I not remained hidden? Have I not kept silence? Have I not remained calm? Yet indignation has overcome me.