Psalms 58:3
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
2If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
Cross References
Job 15:14What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?
Psalms 51:5For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me.
Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.
Isaiah 48:8Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.
Ephesians 2:3In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children 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 →