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.
pass: Psalms 37:35-36; Matthew 24:35; James 1:10
untimely: Job 3:16; Ecclesiastes 6:3