Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants {which} never saw light.

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of {her} hands.

Yea, better {is he} than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, {and as} the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

As a snail {which} melteth, let {every one of them} pass away: {like} the untimely birth of a woman, {that} they may not see the sun.

The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.

And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home. {loan...: or, petition which she asked, etc}

And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's {children}, saying, {them...: Heb. nourishers}

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all {the things} wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and {he hath} much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)

As arrows {are} in the hand of a mighty man; so {are} children of the youth.

And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who {are} those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. {with...: Heb. to thee}

And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

Children's children {are} the crown of old men; and the glory of children {are} their fathers.

All the labour of man {is} for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. {appetite: Heb. soul}

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants {which} never saw light.

As a snail {which} melteth, let {every one of them} pass away: {like} the untimely birth of a woman, {that} they may not see the sun.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Yea, better {is he} than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb {to be} always great {with me}.

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same {is} Hebron in the land of Canaan.

{As for} Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice {told}, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

I {am} a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of {her} hands.

And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; {so} that they shall not say, This {is} Jezebel.

All the kings of the nations, {even} all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.