Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
King James Version
In Context
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Cross References
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalms 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Isaiah 48:8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Ephesians 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the 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 →