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.

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

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:

³⁵ I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

³⁶ But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

³⁵ Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.