Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
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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.
Holman Bible
like a woman’s miscarried child,
they will not see the sun.
International Standard Version
May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun.
A Conservative Version
as a snail which melts and passes away, [as] the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.
American Standard Version
Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
Amplified
Let them be as a snail which melts away (secretes slime) as it goes along,
Like the miscarriage of a woman which never sees the sun.
Bible in Basic English
Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
Darby Translation
Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; like the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.
Julia Smith Translation
As a snail shall melt away he shall go: fire fell; they saw not the sun.
King James 2000
As a snail who melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Let them be] like a snail [that] melts away [as] it goes; [like the] stillborn of woman [that] do not see [the] sun.
Modern King James verseion
Let them be as a snail goes into melting; as a miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let them consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; and let them not see the sun.
NET Bible
Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!
New Heart English Bible
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
The Emphasized Bible
Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun:
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 58:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Against Injustice
7
Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
8
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Cross References
Job 3:16
Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Psalm 37:35-36
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
James 1:10
and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.