1. DO YOU indeed in silence speak righteousness, O you mighty ones? [Or is the righteousness, rightness, and justice you should speak quite dumb?] Do you judge fairly and uprightly, O you sons of men?
2. No, in your heart you devise wickedness; you deal out in the land the violence of your hands.
3. The ungodly are perverse and estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
4. Their poison is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder or asp that stops its ear,