¹⁶ Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,^(A)
    like an infant who never saw the light of day?^(B)

³ But better than both
    is the one who has never been born,^(A)
who has not seen the evil
    that is done under the sun.^(B)

³ “May the day of my birth perish,
    and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’^(A)