King James Version (KJV)
Psalms 58:8
“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.”
Verse in context — Psalms 58
6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7
Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8
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.
9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.
10
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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