Psalms 58:8

Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 such men flow away like waters that disperse themselves: He prepareth his arrow, Like [grass] let them be cut down:

9Before your kettles can perceive the [kindled] bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.

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Cross References

Job 10:19As though I had not been, should I have become,—from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.

Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!

James 1:10Whereas the rich, in his being brought low,—because, as a flower of grass, 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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