Psalm 58:8
Let them be as a snail which melts away (secretes slime) as it goes along,
Like the miscarriage of a woman which never sees the sun.
Job 3:16
“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden and put away, I would not exist,
Like infants who never saw light.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,
Psalm 37:35-36
I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power]
Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,
Matthew 24:35
James 1:10
and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Untimely
General references
Bible References
Pass
I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power]
Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,
Untimely
“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden and put away, I would not exist,
Like infants who never saw light.
General references
‘I should have been as though I had not existed;
[I should have been] carried from the womb to the grave.’