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Psalms 58:8
Psalms 58:8 is verse 8 of Psalms chapter 58, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
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.
World English Bible
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
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Psalms 58:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
7 May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.
8 Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
10 The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
James 1:10But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.