as a snail which melts and passes away, [as] the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.
Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
If a man begets a hundred sons, 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.
but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.
The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.
I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.