Psalm 58:8
Strong's Lexicon
Like
כְּמ֣וֹ (kə·mōw)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 3644: adv 1) like, as, the like of which conj 2) when, according as, as it were

a slug
שַׁ֭בְּלוּל (bə·lūl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7642: 1) snail

that dissolves
יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ (ya·hă·lōḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1980: 1) to go, walk, come 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go, walk, come, depart, proceed, move, go away 1a2) to die, live, manner of life (fig.) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to walk 1b2) to walk (fig.) 1c) (Hithpael) 1c1) to traverse 1c2) to walk about 1d) (Niphal) to lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk

in its slime,
תֶּ֣מֶס (te·mes)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8557: 1) dissolving, melting, melting (away)

like a woman’s
אֵ֝֗שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 802: 1) woman, wife, female 1a) woman (opposite of man) 1b) wife (woman married to a man) 1c) female (of animals) 1d) each, every (pronoun)

stillborn child,
נֵ֥פֶל (nê·p̄el)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5309: 1) untimely birth, abortion, miscarriage

may they never
בַּל־ (bal-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 1077: 1) not, hardly, else

see
חָ֥זוּ (ḥā·zū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2372: 1) to see, perceive, look, behold, prophesy, provide 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to see, behold 1a2) to see as a seer in the ecstatic state 1a3) to see, perceive 1a3a) with the intelligence 1a3b) to see (by experience) 1a3c) to provide

the sun.
שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃ (šā·meš)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8121: 1) sun 1a) sun 1b) sunrise, sun-rising, east, sun-setting, west (of direction) 1c) sun (as object of illicit worship) 1d) openly, publicly (in other phrases) 1e) pinnacles, battlements, shields (as glittering or shining)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

Young's Literal Translation
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Like a slug that moves along in slime, like a woman’s miscarried child, they will not see the sun.

New American Standard Bible
[Let them be] as a snail which melts away as it goes along, [Like] the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

King James Bible
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.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along, like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.

New Living Translation
May they be like snails that dissolve into slime, like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.

English Standard Version
Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

New American Standard Bible
Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along, Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Like a slug that moves along in slime, like a woman's miscarried child, they will not see the sun.

International Standard Version
May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun.

NET Bible
Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!

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

English Revised Version
Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Young's Literal Translation
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
















Cross References
Job 3:16
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3
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.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 58:7
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.

Psalm 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

Psalm 58:5
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Psalm 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Psalm 58:10
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalm 58:11
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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