or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who did not see light.
I should have been as though I had not been; I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest;
Let them be as a snail goes into melting; as a miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, whether green or glowing, He shall sweep it away.
Yea, better than both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage is better than he.
And last of all He was seen by me also, as one born out of time.