8Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.


In Context

5 which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

7 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

8 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;

Psalm 58:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

58:8As 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

58:8Like a slug melting away as it moves along, like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

58:8Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

58:8Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

58:8Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; like the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

58:8Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

58:8As 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

58:8As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

58:8As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.