12 Please don’t let her be like a dead baby[a] whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

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  1. Numbers 12:12 Ancient Jewish tradition reads [baby] who comes out of our mother’s womb and our flesh is half eaten away.

12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”

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12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

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Like a slug that moves along in slime,
like a woman’s miscarried child,
they will not see the sun.(A)

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May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along,(A)
    like a stillborn child(B) that never sees the sun.

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As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

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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)

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  1. Ecclesiastes 6:3 Lit how many years

A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn(A) child is better off than he.(B)

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If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

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