³ A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives,^[a] if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial,^(A) I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.^(B)

²⁹ Look, the days are coming^(A) when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’^(B)