Psalm 58:8 {57:9}
Good News Translation
May they be like snails that dissolve into slime; may they be like a baby born dead that never sees the light.

New Revised Standard Version
Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime; like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.

Contemporary English Version
Let them dry up like snails or be like a child that dies before seeing the sun.

New American Bible
Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away, like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

a snail.

pass

Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus. . . .

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

James 1:10 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

untimely

Job 3:16 Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Context
God Judges the Earth
7They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened. 8Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.9Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.…
Cross References
Job 3:16
Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Psalm 58:7
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