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 lawless man, a tyrant, and spreading himself out, like a cedar in Lebanon;
Matthew 24:35
The heaven and the earth, shall pass away, but, my words, shall, in nowise, pass away.
James 1:10
Whereas the rich, in his being brought low, - because, as a flower of grass, he will pass away;
Untimely
Job 3:16
Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!
General references
Job 10:19
As though I had not been, should I have become, - from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.