Psalms 58:8

In 11 translations

BSB

Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

KJV

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.

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

He goes on as a snail that melts, || [As] an untimely birth of a woman, || They have not seen the sun.

YLT

As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

DBY

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.

DRC57:9

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

GNV

Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.

JPS58:9

Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.

LXXE57:9

They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

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Original-language editions

WLC58:9

כְּמ֣וֹ שַׁ֭בְּלוּל תֶּ֣מֶס יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ נֵ֥פֶל אֵ֝֗שֶׁת בַּל־חָ֥זוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃KJV:Ps.58.8

LXX-Br57:9

Ὡσεὶ κηρὸς ὁ τακεῖς ἀνταναιρεθήσονται, ἔπεσε πῦρ, καὶ οὐκ εἶδον τὸν ἥλιον.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
• Ecclesiastes 6:3A 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…
• Psalms 37:35–36I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree, yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
• James 1:10But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
• Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

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