ma.as describes a flowing or breaking-forth movement in imagery of diseased skin and a melting snail.

The two occurrences depict a flowing, loosening, or breaking-forth movement: one within the description of afflicted skin and the other in the image of a snail that melts away.

1. Flowing or breaking forth · dominant

   In Job 7:5, the Niphal sequential imperfect singular occurs in the description of skin that hardens and then “breaks out afresh” in the APB. In Psalm 58:8, the Niphal imperfect plural stands in the comparison with a “melting snail,” presenting the same broad imagery of movement or dissolution.

   Job 7:5Psalm 58:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the surrounding imagery as skin that “breaks out afresh” in Job 7:5 and as a “melting snail” in Psalm 58:8. Its exact English contribution for the term cannot be isolated with certainty.