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.

General references

Bible References

Pass

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power]
Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth [as now known] will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
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.

Untimely

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,

General references

Job 10:19

‘I should have been as though I had not existed;
[I should have been] carried from the womb to the grave.’