Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged, from their very birth; The liars go astray as soon as they are born.
Noyes Bible
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 your hearts ye contrive iniquity; Your hands weigh out violence in the land!
4They have poison, like the poison of a serpent; Like the deaf adder's, which stoppeth her ear;
Cross References
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, And he that is born of woman, that he should be innocent?
Psalms 51:5Behold! I was born in iniquity, And in sin did my mother conceive me.
Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound to the heart of a child; But the rod of correction will drive it far from him.
Isaiah 48:8Yea, thou heardest it not; yea, thou knewest it not; Yea, it was not disclosed to thee long ago; For I knew that thou wast wholly faithless, And wast called rebellious from thy birth.
Ephesians 2:3among whom even we all had our way of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others;
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 →