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

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

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:

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

³⁶ But he passed away, and, behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

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

¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.