Psalms 58:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:16 : 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 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] better than he.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 ‹Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.›
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 But 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 bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 7 Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

  • 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.

  • 6 Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

  • 2 As smoke is driven away, [so] drive [them] away: as wax melteth before the fire, [so] let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

  • 20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].

  • 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.

  • Job 24:17-20
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    72%

    17 For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.

    18 ¶ He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

    19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned.

    20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

  • 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

  • Job 20:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?

    8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

  • 10 For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

  • Job 3:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

    9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

  • 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

  • 19 How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff [that] is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

  • 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • 15 Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them.

  • 7 ¶ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for ever:

  • 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

  • 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

  • 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

  • 10 The wicked shall see [it], and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

  • 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames.

  • 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

  • 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.

  • 16 To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

  • 15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

  • 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

  • 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

  • 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.

  • 10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

  • Ps 69:23-24
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    23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

    24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

  • 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

  • 4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

  • 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

  • 13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

  • 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

  • 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

  • 7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the people, O God.

  • 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.

  • 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • 27 Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.