Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
- 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.
- NASB May they be like a snail which goes along in slime, Like the miscarriage of a woman that never sees the sun.
- NLT May they be like snails that dissolve into slime, like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.
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Cross-references · 5
- Job 3:16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
- Eccl 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
- Jas 1:10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
- Ps 37:35–36I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
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