⁸ Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

¹⁶ Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

³ If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

³⁵ I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

³⁶ But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

¹⁰ But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.