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,
5. Which listens not to the voice of charmers or of the enchanter never casting spells so cunningly.
6. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths; break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.