Let them be like the snail (A)that dissolves into slime,
    like (B)the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

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16 Or why was I not as a hidden (A)stillborn child,
    as infants who never see the light?

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If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that (A)the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's (B)good things, and he also has no (C)burial, I say that (D)a stillborn child is better off than he.

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35 (A)I have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
    spreading himself like (B)a green laurel tree.[a]
36 But he passed away,[b] and behold, (C)he was no more;
    though I sought him, he could not be found.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:35 The identity of this tree is uncertain
  2. Psalm 37:36 Or But one passed by

10 and (A)the rich in his humiliation, because (B)like a flower of the grass[a] he will pass away.

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:10 Or a wild flower

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