Psalms 58:8

Psalms 58:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along, like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes, Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Context of Psalms 58:8

6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. 7Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun. 9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. 10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalms 58:8 word by word

כְּמ֣וֹ שַׁ֭בְּלוּל תֶּ֣מֶס יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ נֵ֥פֶל אֵ֝֗שֶׁת בַּל־חָ֥זוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃Read the interlinear

• Letהָלַךְhâlak · to go: wentH1980
• whichמַיmayim · waterH4325
• awayהָלַךְhâlak · to go: continueH1980

Cross-references for Psalms 58:8

• Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
• Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
• James 1:10and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
• Job 3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
• Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be 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:

Commentaries on Psalms 58:8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8As a snail which melteth - The Chaldee reads the verse thus: "They shall melt away in their sins as water flows off; as the creeping snail that smears its track; as the untimely birth and the blind mole, which do not see the sun." The original word שבלול shablul, a snail, is either from שביל shebil, a path, because it leaves a shining path after it by emitting a portion of slime, and thus glaring the ground; and therefore might be emphatically called the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away - Or rather, As the snail which melteth as it goes; that is, which leaves a slimy trail as it moves along, and thus melts away the more as it advances, until at length it dies. Gesenius, Lexicon. The allusion is to what seems to occur to the snail; it seems to melt or to be dissolved as it moves along; or seems to leave a part of itself in the slime which flows from it. Like the untimely birth of a…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-11Verses 6-11 David prayed that the enemies of God's church and people might be disabled to do further mischief. We may, in faith, pray against the designs of the enemies of the church. He foretells their ruin. And who knows the power of God's anger? The victories of the Just One, in his own person and that of his servants, over the enemies of man's salvation, produce a joy which springs not from revenge, but from a view of the Divine mercy, justice, and…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8When moving over dry ground, slugs dry up.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-98-9. Other figures of this utter ruin; the last denoting rapidity. In a shorter time than pots feel the heat of thorns on fire--Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 58:8

• Snail
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Altaschith
• Michtam
• Psalms
• Snail
• Wickedness
• Psalms, Book of
• Song
• bow and arrow, a bow

Commentaries on Psalms 58

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary