because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.

For why did I not die in the belly? And why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?

or I [should have been] as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.

Why then did You bring me out of the womb? And why did I not die, and no eye see me,

and I become as if I had not been? For why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

If a man beget a hundred [children], and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet [if] his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.