Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
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TSK · Ecclesiastes 4:3
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Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
‹And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!›