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Psalms 58:8

Psalms chapter 58 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Let them beas a snail which melteth and passeth away, Likethe untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Let them beas a snail which melteth and passeth away, Likethe untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Context

v.7Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

v.8This passage

v.9Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Matthew 24:35

    Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

  • Job 3:16

    Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

  • Psalms 37:35

    I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

  • Ecclesiastes 6:3

    If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

  • James 1:10

    and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.