Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?
Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
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