The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
The wicked are estranged from the womb. From his own personal enemies David passes to the innate corruption of the wicked in general. He does not mean that the wicked alone are thus innately corrupt; but he traces their hardened malignity to the original and universal birth-sin (Psalms 51:5) which, in their case, has not been counteracted by grace; whereas in the godly it has been checked, and is daily being more and more subdued.