Psalms 58:11

So that a man shall say Rather, So that men shall say: the mass of men, who are neither -righteous" nor -wicked," but as it were spectators of the conflict between the righteous and the wicked.

Verily This particle expresses the recognition of a truth which has been obscured or questioned: -after all," -surely." Cp. Psalms 73:1.

a reward Lit. fruit. Cf. Isaiah 3:10. Their patient continuance in well-doing bears its harvest in due time (Galatians 6:9).

verily he is a God Better, Verily there is a God (R.V.). Contrary however to the general usage when God is spoken of, the predicate is in the plural: and perhaps Elôhîmis meant to be taken somewhat more vaguely, in parallelism and contrast to the judges of Psalms 58:1 the contrast holds whether çlîm, -gods," is read in Psalms 58:1 or not as Divine Powers. But the reading is not above suspicion. The LXX and Syr. have that judgeth them, i.e. does the righteous justice (Psalms 43:1), the final mbeing read as the pronominal suffix, not as the sign of the plural [27].

[27] They must have found שׁפטם written defectively and read shôph'tâmnot shôph'tîm.

For like confidence in the final manifestation of God's judgement see Psalms 7:11 ff.; Psalms 9:7 ff., Psalms 9:19; Psalms 11:4 ff.; and cp. Luke 18:7 ff.