Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
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.
NET Bible
The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.
New Heart English Bible
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
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 Aye! ye all do work, perversity, - Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence! 3 Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood; 4 Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 51:5
Lo! in iniquity, was I brought forth, And, in sin, did my mother conceive me.
Isaiah 48:8
Nay! 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.
Job 15:14
What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?
Psalm 22:10
Upon thee, was I cast from the time I was born, From the womb of my mother, my GOD, hast thou been.
Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness, is bound up in the heart of a youth, the rod of correction, shall drive it far from him.
Isaiah 46:3
Hearken unto me O house of Jacob, Even all the remnant of the house of Israel, - Who have been borne from birth, Who have been carried from nativity:
Ephesians 2:3
Among 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, -