Psalms 58:3
(58-4) The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
2(58-3) Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.
4(58-5) Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp 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 51:5(51-7) Behold, 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 wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
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 →