¹⁶ Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

⁸ `Let them be' as a snail which melteth and passeth away, `Like' the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

³ If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

⁸ and last of all, as to the `child' untimely born, he appeared to me also.