Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?

或像隐而未现、不到期而落的胎，归于无有，如同未见光的婴孩。

我为何不像流产的胎儿被埋藏，如同未见光的婴孩？

我为何不像流产的胎儿被埋藏，如同未见光的婴孩？

为何我没有像未见天日就流产的婴儿一样消逝？

我为什么不像暗中流产的胎，未见天日的婴孩，归于无有呢？

或像隱而未現、不到期而落的胎，歸於無有，如同未見光的嬰孩。

我為何不像流產的胎兒被埋藏，如同未見光的嬰孩？

我為何不像流產的胎兒被埋藏，如同未見光的嬰孩？

為何我沒有像未見天日就流產的嬰兒一樣消逝？

我為甚麼不像暗中流產的胎，未見天日的嬰孩，歸於無有呢？

我為甚麼又不像流產而埋藏的胎、以歸於無？不像未見光的死產嬰呢？

或如未滿期之胎、未見光之嬰、

我願與胎未成人、產不及期者、胥歸無有、

何不如未成形而墮之胎、何不如甫產而死之嬰、甫產而死之嬰原文作未見光之嬰

Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?

Why wasn’t I buried like a baby who was born dead? Why wasn’t I buried like a child who never saw the light of day?

Why wasn’t I buried like a stillborn child, like a baby who never lives to see the light?

Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child, like infants who never see daylight?

Or like a miscarriage which is hidden, I would not exist, As infants that never saw light.

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw light?

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child, like infants who never see daylight?

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants[ which] never saw light.

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.

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.