1. Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2. Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
3. The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
4. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
5. Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely.
6. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
7. Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
8. Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.