The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
David challenges his enemies with a piercing question: Do you yourselves not see the justice of my cause? When a man's innocence is evident enough to appeal to his very accusers, he stands on solid ground. He exposes their calumnies by demanding their own testimony to his integrity.
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Commenting on Psalm 58:1-11
The wicked are estranged from the womb. It is small wonder that some men persecute the righteous seed of the woman, since all of them are of the serpent's brood, and enmity is set between them. No sooner born than alienated from God—what a condition to be found in! Do we so early leave the right track?
A bench of judges, learned in righteous statutes, corrupted by Saul's patronage into instruments of his hatred. They would not speak righteousness or judge uprightly, though that was their sworn office. In the place of judgment itself, wickedness had taken the throne.
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Commenting on Psalm 58:1-5