Parallel Verses
NET Bible
The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.
New American Standard Bible
These who speak lies
King James Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Holman Bible
liars err from birth.
International Standard Version
The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth.
A Conservative Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
American Standard Version
The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Amplified
The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These go astray from birth, speaking lies [even twisted partial truths].
Bible in Basic English
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
Darby Translation
The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Julia Smith Translation
The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.
King James 2000
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The wicked are estranged from [the] womb. They go astray from [the] belly, speaking lies.
Modern King James verseion
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from the womb, speaking lies.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The ungodly are froward, even from their mother's womb; as soon as they be born, they go astray and speak lies.
New Heart English Bible
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
The Emphasized Bible
Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
Webster
The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
World English Bible
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Youngs Literal Translation
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
Themes
Character » Of the wicked » Lying
Character of the wicked » Lying
Estrangement » From God » General references to
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Estranged from God
Heredity » General references to
Lying » The wicked » Addicted to, from their infancy
Parent's sins » Visited upon children » General references to
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 58:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Against Injustice
2 No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth. 3 The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born. 4 Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear,
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 51:5
Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
Isaiah 48:8
You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.
Job 15:14
What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalm 22:10
I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother's womb you have been my God.
Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
Isaiah 46:3
"Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest