אִם־יוֹלִ֣יד אִ֣ישׁ מֵאָ֡ה וְשָׁנִים֩ רַבּ֨וֹת יִֽחְיֶ֜ה וְרַ֣ב ׀ שֶׁיִּהְי֣וּ יְמֵֽי־שָׁנָ֗יו וְנַפְשׁוֹ֙ לֹא־תִשְׂבַּ֣ע מִן־הַטּוֹבָ֔ה וְגַם־קְבוּרָ֖ה לֹא־הָ֣יְתָה לּ֑וֹ אָמַ֕רְתִּי ט֥וֹב מִמֶּ֖נּוּ הַנָּֽפֶל׃
Kung ang isang tao ay magkaanak ng isang daan, at mabuhay nang maraming taon, at marami man ang mga araw ng kanyang mga taon, ngunit ang kanyang kaluluwa ay hindi nasisiyahan sa kabutihan, at hindi man lamang siya nailibing, sinasabi ko: mas mabuti pa kaysa sa kanya ang batang ipinanganak na patay.
Aramaic Targum to Ecclesiastes
If a man should beget a hundred children, and live many years, and be in power and dominion all the days of his life, and his soul has not enjoyed the good which he has, because he loved his riches, and has not acquired therewith a good name, nor even prepared himself a grave, I say by the divine word, better than he an untimely birth, which has not seen this world.