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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Psa 58:8 — 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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a snail
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&-- Shabbelool, in Chaldee tivlala, the snail, is probably so called from the Arabic balla, to wet, moisten, because of the glutinous slime emitted from its body, by which it appears to waste itself away in its own motion; and in the same manner the wicked prove their own destruction. |
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pass
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Psa 37:35,36; Mat 24:35; Jam 1:10 |
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untimely
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Job 3:16; Ecc 6:3 |
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Psa 37:35 |
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. |
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Psa 37:36 |
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. |
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Mat 24:35 |
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. |
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Jam 1:10 |
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. |
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Job 3:16 |
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light. |
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Ecc 6:3 |
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. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 58:8," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Psa/58/8.html>.
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