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.
Ver. 8. As a snail which melteth] The psalmist heapeth up many very fit similitudes agreeable to these men's avarice and ambition, which was to raise themselves and their posterity to great estates; but all should come to nothing suddenly.