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A Challenge to Unjust Rulers
Commentators agree this verse is a sharp, rhetorical question aimed at corrupt leaders or judges. David isn't genuinely asking if they are just; he is accusing them of failing to be. By questioning their integrity so directly, he highlights the profound gap between their duty to enact righteousness and their actual practice of injustice.
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Psalms
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 58:1
18th Century
Theologian
Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?—Luther renders this, “Are you then dumb, that you will not speak what is right, …
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 58:1
19th Century
Bishop
Congregation. —This rendering comes from a mistaken derivation of the Hebrew word êlem, which presents some difficulty. A…
John Calvin
On Psalms 58:1
16th Century
Theologian
Do ye indeed speak righteousness? In putting this question to his enemies by way of challenge, David displays the boldness of conscious re…
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John Gill
On Psalms 58:1
17th Century
Pastor
Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation ?
&c.] Of the mighty, as in (Psalms 82:1) ; the judges…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 58:1–5
17th Century
Minister
When wrong is done under the form of law, it is worse than any other; especially it is grievous to behold those who profess to be children of God, …