Psalm 58:8
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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.Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
In other translations
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.Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Job 3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- James 1:10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
- Psalm 37:35-3635 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree, 36 yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
- Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
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