Verse Comparison: Psalms 58:8
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.
Amplified® Bible
Let them be as a snail dissolving slime as it passes on {or} as a festering sore which wastes away, like [the child to which] a woman gives untimely birth that has not seen the sun.
Contemporary English Version
Let them dry up like snails or be like a child that dies before seeing the sun.
Darby English Version
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.
Good News Bible
May they be like snails that dissolve into slime; may they be like a baby born dead that never sees the light.
King James Version
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 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.
New International Version
Like a slug melting away as it moves along,
like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun.
New King James Version
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.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Let them resemble a snail which melts away as it goes along, Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.
Revised Standard Version
Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees 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.
