Like a snail which melts away as it moves, Like a woman’s stillbirth, Let them not see the sun!
I should have been as though I had not been – brought from the womb to the burial-site.
or as a hidden untimely birth, as infants who never saw light?
If a man brings forth a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial-place, I say that a premature birth is better than he,
“The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away.
but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he shall pass away.