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

⁵ Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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.

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

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.

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

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:

¹⁰ I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.