Psalms 58:8

American Standard Version (1901)

[ Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:16 : 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 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:
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 36 But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

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