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16 Why wasn’t I buried like a stillborn child,
    like a baby who never lives to see the light?

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16 Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,(A)
    like an infant who never saw the light of day?(B)

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May they be like snails that dissolve into slime,
    like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.

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May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along,(A)
    like a stillborn child(B) that never sees the sun.

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A man might have a hundred children and live to be very old. But if he finds no satisfaction in life and doesn’t even get a decent burial, it would have been better for him to be born dead.

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A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn(A) child is better off than he.(B)

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Last of all, as though I had been born at the wrong time, I also saw him.

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and last of all he appeared to me also,(A) as to one abnormally born.

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