Psalms 58:8

King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Job 24:17-20
    4 verses
    72%

    17For 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.

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

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

    20The 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.

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

  • Job 20:7-8
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    71%

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

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

  • 10For 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
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    8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

    9Let 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:

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

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

  • 3Therefore 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 11For 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.

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

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

  • 8And 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 15There 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.

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

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

  • 21Therefore 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.

  • 10Let 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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    23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 4How 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.

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

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

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

  • 27Therefore 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.