Psalms 58:8 (KJV)

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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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pass. Ps 37:35 Ps 37:36 Mt 24:35 Jas 1:10

untimely. Job 3:16 Ec 6:3

a snail.--{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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