Stillborn

Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.