Verse 11 Speaketh evil of the law and judgeth the law; violates the law, and assumes the office of judge under it. The sacred writers often use the same terms in a modified sense in the second clause of a sentence which had been used appropriately and naturally in the first, in order to preserve a sort of parallelism or symmetry of expression. Thus the phrases speaketh evil of, and judgeth, are repeated in the second clause, in this case, although used in a modified sense.