Psalms 58:8
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.
KJV
Ecce loquentur in ore suo, et gladius in labiis eorum : quoniam quis audivit ?
Vulgate
ἰδοὺ ἀποφθέγξονται ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτῶν, καὶ ῥομφαία ἐν τοῖς χείλεσιν αὐτῶν· ὅτι τίς ἤκουσεν;
LXX
Let them beas a snail which melteth and passeth away, Likethe untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
ASV
יִמָּאֲס֣וּ כְמוֹ מַ֭יִם יִתְהַלְּכוּ לָ֑/מוֹ יִדְרֹ֥ךְ חצ/ו חִ֝צָּ֗י/ו כְּמ֣וֹ יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הוֹלֵ֣ךְ
hvlk
verb · 507×
ו
v
noun · 45×
כְּמוֹ
kmv
preposition · 142×
ם
m
verb · 36×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
מָאָ֔סוּ
m'sv
verb · 76×
נִי
ny
verb · 63×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Eccl 6:3 — If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is
- Job 3:16 — Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
- Job 3:16 — Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
- Job 29:17 — And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- Ps 37:35 — I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.