³ Even from birth the wicked go astray;
    from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

⁵ Surely I was sinful^(A) at birth,^(B)
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

⁸ You have neither heard nor understood;^(A)
    from of old your ears^(B) have not been open.
Well do I know how treacherous^(C) you are;
    you were called a rebel^(D) from birth.

³ “Listen^(A) to me, you descendants of Jacob,
    all the remnant^(B) of the people of Israel,
you whom I have upheld since your birth,^(C)
    and have carried^(D) since you were born.^(E)

¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.^(A)