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9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
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The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
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.
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-10)Here, I. David desires to be told of his faults. His enemies reproached him with that which was false, which he could not but complain of; yet, at the same time, he desired his friends would reprove him for that which was really amiss in him, particularly if there was any thing that gave the least colour to those reproaches (Ps. 141:5): let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness . The righ…
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