Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
In Context
2No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops her ear,
Cross References
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalms 51:5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Isaiah 48:8Yea, thou heard not. Yea, thou knew not. Yea, from of old thine ear was not opened. For I knew that thou dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
Ephesians 2:3Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 58:2-6
A Reproof to Wicked Judges. 1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. We have reason to think that this… Read the whole commentary →