Psalms 58:3
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
Young's Literal Translation
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
2Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
4Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
Cross References
Job 15:14What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
Psalms 51:5Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.
Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.
Isaiah 48:8Yea, thou hast not heard, Yea, thou hast not known, Yea, from that time not opened hath thine ear, For I have known thou dealest treacherously, And 'Transgressor from the belly,' One is crying to thee.
Ephesians 2:3among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath — as also the 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 →