Psalms 58:3
The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
2Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
4Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
Cross References
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
Psalms 51:5Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishnesse is bounde in the heart of a childe: but the rodde of correction shall driue it away from him.
Isaiah 48:8Yet thou heardest them not, neither diddest know them, neither yet was thine eare opened of olde: for I knewe that thou wouldest grieuously transgresse: therefore haue I called thee a transgressour from the wombe.
Ephesians 2:3Among whom we also had our conuersation in time past, in the lustes of our flesh, in fulfilling the will of the flesh, and of the minde, and were by nature the children of wrath, as well 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 →