Psalms 58:8

WEB

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

KJV

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.

BSB

⁸^[+] Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

FBV

⁸^[+] May they be like the slime of snails that dissolves away, like a stillborn child that never saw the light of day.

Extra References

Job 3:16

¹⁶or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

³If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he;

Psalms 37:35-36

³⁵I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. ³⁶But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

James 1:10

¹⁰and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

Matthew 24:35

³⁵Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.