As wax that floateth [or floweth] away, they shall be taken away; fire fell above, and they saw not the sun.
That I had been, as if I were not, and were translated, either borne over, from the womb to the sepulchre.
either as a child, or a beast, born before the time, and hid, I should not have been; either as they that be conceived, and saw not light.
If a man engendereth an hundred free sons, and hath many days of age, and his soul useth not the goods of his chattel [or substance], and wanteth burying; I pronounce of this man, that a dead-born child is better than he.
heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass.
and a rich man in his lowness; for as the flower of grass he shall pass.