⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

⁴ Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

³ The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

¹² because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

³ among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

²¹ and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, `I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man `is' evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;

¹⁴ What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

¹⁵ Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

¹⁶ Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

⁶ that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

³ And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth `a son' in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth.