The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
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 born estranged from God, what a condition to enter the world in! Sin and falsehood appear almost before a child can speak; watch any infant and you will see deceptive arts already at work. He who starts early in his wickedness will go far before nightfall, and since all men are liars from birth, all men are fallen.
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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