"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."
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I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.
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.
\58:7\Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, Like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, `As' an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.