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 a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Matthew 24:35
The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.
James 1:10
but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.
Untimely
Job 3:16
Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has 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.