¹⁵ so that I prefer strangling^[a]—
death rather than life in this body.^[b](A)
16 I give up! I will not live forever.
Leave me alone,^(B) for my days are a breath.^[c]

7 A good name is better than fine perfume,^(A)
and the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.^(B)