Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.
and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?
If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
and the rich in his humiliation, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.