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

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.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. {a green...: or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil}

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

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

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. {the jaws: Heb. the jawteeth, or, the grinders} {plucked: Heb. cast}

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

Why died I not from the womb? {why} did I {not} give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

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

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.

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known {any thing}: this hath more rest than the other.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: {so doth} the grave {those which} have sinned. {consume: Heb. violently take}