Psalms 58:3
The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Darby Translation
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
2Yea, 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: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
Cross References
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalms 51:5Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Isaiah 48:8Yea, thou heardest not, yea, thou knewest not, yea, from of old thine ear was not opened; for I knew that thou wouldest ever deal treacherously, and thou wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Ephesians 2:3among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:
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 →