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

⁸ Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, Like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

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

⁸ and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.