Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
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:
and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.