Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Untimely
General references
Bible References
Pass
Psalm 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
James 1:10
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Untimely
Job 3:16
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
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.
General references
Job 10:19
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.