KJV King James Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
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Psalm 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
WEB World English Bible
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
ASV American Standard Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
Surrounding context — Psalm 58
1 To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. 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.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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Psalm 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.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.Proverbs 22:15Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.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.Job 15:14What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?Psalm 22:10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother’s belly.Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne [by me] from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
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