³ The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

⁸ Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁰ I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

¹⁵ Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; `But' the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

³ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne `by me' from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;

³ among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--