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.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet them beas a snail which melteth and passeth away, Likethe untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, 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.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.