'State' in the Bible

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

“These things you have done and I kept silence;You thought that I was just like you;I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].

When my heart was embitteredAnd I was pierced within [as with the fang of an adder],

A senseless man [in his crude and uncultivated state] knows nothing,Nor does a [self-righteous] fool understand this: