Psalm 58:8 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

⁸ Like to a snail that melts away, let each of them be gone; Like woman's birth untimely, that they never see 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?"

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