Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.

King James Version

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Holman Bible

The wicked go astray from the womb;
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.

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.

References

Easton

Sin

Smith

Context Readings

A Cry Against Injustice

2 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.
4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

Cross References

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Psalm 22:10

On you was I cast from my birth, and from 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 drives it far from him.

Isaiah 46:3

"Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb;

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

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