¹⁶ Or why was I not hidden ^(A)like a stillborn child,
Like infants who never saw light?

⁸ Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
^(A)Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

^3 (A)Yet, better than both is he who has never existed,
Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.