Psalms 58:4
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
In Context
3For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
5Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
Cross References
Genesis 8:21And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.
Job 20:14His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him.
Psalms 51:7For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.
Ecclesiastes 10:11If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.
Jeremiah 8:17For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
Matthew 23:33You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?
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 →