Translations
Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives through many long years — yet never finds his soul satisfied with life's goodness, and dies without a proper burial — I say: the stillborn child is better off than he.
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years — so that his days are many — yet his being is not satisfied with good, and he has no proper burial, I say the stillborn child is better off than he.
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.
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

