Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

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 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;


Cross References

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Isaiah 48:8

Yea, 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.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Psalm 22:10

I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

Proverbs 22:15

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Isaiah 46:3

Hearken 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:

Ephesians 2:3

Among 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.

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