Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
(A)Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

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16 Or why was I not hidden (A)like a stillborn child,
Like infants who never saw light?

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If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or (A)indeed he has no burial, I say that (B)a [a]stillborn child is better than he—

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:3 Or miscarriage

35 I have seen the wicked in great power,
And spreading himself like a native green tree.
36 Yet [a]he passed away, and behold, he was no more;
Indeed I sought him, but he could not be found.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:36 So with MT, LXX, Tg.; Syr., Vg. I passed by

10 but the rich in his humiliation, because (A)as a flower of the field he will pass away.

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35 (A)Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

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