Psalms 58:8

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.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:

9Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, they shall be whirled away.

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Cross References

Job 10:19I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred [sons], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.

James 1:10and the rich in his humiliation, because as [the] grass's flower he will pass away.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 58:7-11

Prophetic Imprecations. 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord . 7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. 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. 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. 10 The righteous shall… Read the whole commentary →

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