Why is light given to the toilers,
and life to the bitter in spirit?
Job 3:20
They wait for death and it comes not; they search for it rather than for hidden treasures, rejoice in it exultingly, and are glad when they reach the grave: Those whose path is hidden from them, and whom God has hemmed in! (Job 3:21-23)
Will you work wonders for the dead? Will the shades arise to give you thanks? Do they declare your mercy in the grave, your faithfulness among those who have perished? Are your wonders made known in the darkness, or your justice in the land of oblivion? (Psalm 88:11-13)
WISHING YOU WERE NOT BORN
Why did I not perish at birth, come forth from the womb and expire? Or why was I not buried away like an untimely birth, like babes that have never seen the light? Wherefore did the knees receive me? or why did I suck at the breasts? (Job 3:11-12)
For then I should have lain down and been tranquil; had I slept, I should then have been at rest. With kings and counselors of the earth who built where now there are ruins. Or with princes who had gold and filled their houses with silver. There the wicked cease from troubling, there the weary are at rest. (Job 3:13-17)
