Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree. But he passed away, and behold, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
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