Psalm 58:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Let them be as a snail dissolving slime as it passes on or as a festering sore which wastes away, like [the child to which] a woman gives untimely birth that has not seen the sun.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Common English Bible

⁸ Like the snail that dissolves into slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, let them never see the sun.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Behold, they will speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: "For who has heard us?"

Psalm 58:8 Cross References

Job 3:16

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like an infant that never sees the light?

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

James 1:10

and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Job 10:19

and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.