²⁶ I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

² Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

³ And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,