Psalms 58:3
Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
2Aye! ye all do work, perversity,—Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!
4Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;
Cross References
Job 15:14What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?
Psalms 51:5Lo! in iniquity, was I brought forth, And, in sin, did my mother conceive me.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness, is bound up in the heart of a youth, the rod of correction, shall drive it far from him.
Isaiah 48:8Nay! thou hadst not heard, Nay! thou hadst not known, Nay! in time past, thine ear, was not opened,—For I knew that thou, wouldst be treacherous, Yea a transgressor from birth, hast thou been called.
Ephesians 2:3Among whom also, we all, had our behaviour, at one time, in the covetings of our flesh, doing the things desired by the flesh and the mind, and were children, by nature, of anger—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 →