Psalms 58:3
The wicked go astray from the womb liars take the wrong path from their birth.
Open English Bible (US)
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
2In the land you practise iniquity – all of you; violence do you dispense with your hands.
4Venom have they like the venom of snakes, they are like the deaf adder that stops her ears,
Cross References
Psalms 51:5See! In guilt was I brought to the birth, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Ephesians 2:3And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our nature exposed us to the divine wrath, like the rest of humanity.
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 →