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 the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
James 1:10
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

Untimely

Job 3:16
Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

General references

Job 10:19
And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain