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.

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.

And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. {one...: or, an abortive}

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.

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.

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. {He...: or, He hath delivered my soul, etc, and my life}

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}.

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

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter {in} soul;