Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
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
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent. Is man also a poisonous reptile? Yes, and his venom is even as that of a serpent. The viper has but death for the body in his fangs; but unregenerate man carries poison under his tongue, destructive to the nobler nature. They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear.
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