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Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime,
    like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.(A)

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16 Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child,
    like an infant that never sees the light?(A)

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A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.(A)

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10 and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.(A)

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35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.(A)

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35 I have seen the wicked oppressing
    and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.[a](A)
36 Again I[b] passed by, and they were no more;
    though I sought them, they could not be found.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 37.35 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 37.36 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb he