Psalm 58:8
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New International Version (©1984)
Like a slug melting away as it moves along, like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along, Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

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

Bible in Basic English
Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

Darby Bible Translation
Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; like the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

English Revised Version
Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

Young's Literal Translation
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

Geneva Study Bible

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.

Wesley's Notes

58:8 Melteth - Which is quickly dissolved.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8, 9. Other figures of this utter ruin; the last denoting rapidity. In a shorter time than pots feel the heat of thorns on fire-

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

58:6-11 David prayed that the enemies of God's church and people might be disabled to do further mischief. We may, in faith, pray against the designs of the enemies of the church. He foretells their ruin. And who knows the power of God's anger? The victories of the Just One, in his own person and that of his servants, over the enemies of man's salvation, produce a joy which springs not from revenge, but from a view of the Divine mercy, justice, and truth, shown in the redemption of the elect, the punishment of the ungodly, and the fulfilment of the promises. Whoever duly considers these things, will diligently seek the reward of righteousness, and adore the Providence which orders all thing aright in heaven and in earth.


Job 3:16 "Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.
Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, "Better the miscarriage than he, (NASB ©1995)

Birth Births Child End Fruit Gives Goes Melteth Melts Moves Passes Passeth Slime Snail Stillborn Sun Time Turned Untimely Water


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.

a snail. --Shabbelool, in Chaldee tivlala, the snail, is probably so called from the Arabic balla, to wet, moisten, because of the glutinous slime emitted from its body, by which it appears to waste itself away in its own motion: and in the same manner the wicked prove their own destruction

pass Ps 37:35,36 Mt 24:35 Jas 1:10

untimely Job 3:16 Ec 6:3

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