Psalm 58:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ Like a snail which melts away as it moves, Like a woman’s stillbirth, Let them not 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?"

Psalm 58:8 Cross References

Job 10:19

I should have been as though I had not been – brought from the womb to the grave.

Job 3:16

or as a hidden untimely birth, as infants who never saw light?

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man brings forth a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a premature birth is better than he,

Matthew 24:35

“The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away.

James 1:10

but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he shall pass away.