Psalms 58:3

(58:4) The wicked are estranged [from goodness] from the womb: those who speak lies go astray from their very birth.

Leeser Tanakh

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) Even in [your] heart ye work injustice: on the earth do ye weigh out the violence of your hands.

4(58:5) They have poison like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

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Cross References

Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure? and that he who is born of woman should be declared righteous?

Psalms 51:5(51:7) Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Proverbs 22:15When folly is bound fast to the heart of a lad, the rod of correction must remove it far from him.

Isaiah 48:8But neither hadst thou heard it; nor didst thou know; nor had in ancient times thy ear been opened; for I knew that thou wouldst deal very treacherously, and a transgressor wast thou called from thy birth.

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 →

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