Psalm 58:8 {57:9}
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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.

Lexicon
Like
כְּמ֣וֹ (kə·mōw)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 3644: Like, as, when

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

that dissolves
יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ (ya·hă·lōḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk

in its slime,
תֶּ֣מֶס (te·mes)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8557: Liquefaction, disappearance

like a woman’s
אֵ֝֗שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

stillborn child,
נֵ֥פֶל (nê·p̄el)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5309: Something fallen, an abortion

may they never
בַּל־ (bal-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 1077: A failure, nothing, not at all, lest

see
חָ֥זוּ (ḥā·zū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2372: To gaze at, to perceive, contemplate, to have a, vision of

the sun.
שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃ (šā·meš)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8121: The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement


Additional Translations
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

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

They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

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

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.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

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