Psalms 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 Psalms Chapter 58 connects to 6 cross-references. A Miktam of David calling out corrupt rulers who pervert justice and asking whether they do right. He describes the wicked as going astray from birth, like a deaf cobra that cannot be charmed. He appeals to God to break …
Other Translations
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.
Cross References
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
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.