Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
American Standard 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
2Nay, 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 that stoppeth her ear,
Cross References
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalms 51:5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive 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 heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Ephesians 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, 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 →