1. Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?
2. Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
3. The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
4. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
5. Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.
6. O God break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
7. Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:
8. Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; like the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.