시편 58:8
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.
Context
This verse from 시편 Chapter 58 connects to 6 cross-references. 다윗이 타락한 통치자들을 묘사하는 믹담이다. 심판을 왜곡하는 자들에게 하나님이 그들의 이빨을 부수어 달라고 강렬하게 기도한다. 의인이 악인의 피로 발을 씻으며 하나님이 땅에서 심판하신다는 것을 알게 되리라고 선언한다.
다른 번역본
Let them beas a snail which melteth and passeth away, Likethe untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, <FI>As<Fi> an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
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.
상호 참조
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, …
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.