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8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away{H8799)}: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see{H8804)} the sun.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
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.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. …
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)In these verses we have, I. David’s prayers against his enemies, and all the enemies of God’s church and people; for it is as such that he looks upon them, so that he was actuated by a public spirit in praying against them, and not by any private revenge. 1. He prays that they might be disabled to do any further mischief (Ps. 58:6): Break their teeth, O God ! Not so much that they might not feed t…
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