Psalms 58:3
The wicked go astray from the womb.They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
New Heart English 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
2No, in your heart you plot injustice.You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
4Their poison is like the poison of a snake;like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
Cross References
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean?What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalms 51:5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity.In sin my mother conceived me.
Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child:the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Isaiah 48:8Yes, you did not hear; yes, you did not know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
Ephesians 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
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 →