what time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
And Eli´jah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gil´e-ad, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.