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110The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
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Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 109-110)Here is, 1. David in danger of losing his life. There is but a step between him and death, for the wicked have laid a snare for him; Saul did so many a time, because he hated him for his piety. Wherever he was he found some design or other laid against him to take away his life, for it was that they aimed at. What they could not effect by open force they hoped to compass by treachery, which made h…
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