³ If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many ^[a]they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper ^(A)burial, then I say, “Better ^(B)the miscarriage than he, ⁴ for a miscarriage comes in futility and goes into darkness; and its name is covered in darkness. ⁵ It has not even seen the sun nor does it know it; yet ^[b]it is better off than that man.