Psalms 58:8

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

Young's Literal 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

7They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

9Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

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Cross References

Job 10:19As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he [is] the untimely birth.'

James 1:10and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall 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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