Psalms 58:8

World English Bible (2000)

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has 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 who never saw light.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If 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:
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 36 But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

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  • Job 6:17-18
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    17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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  • Ps 68:2
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    2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

  • Job 4:20
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    20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

  • Job 9:26
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  • Job 24:17-20
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    17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

    18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

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    20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

  • Job 21:18
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    18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

  • Job 20:7-8
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    7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

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  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

  • Job 3:8-9
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    8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

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

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    19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • Hos 13:3
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    3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

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    15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

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  • Ps 83:17
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  • Jas 1:11
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