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4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
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I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It is probable that David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul and his party, who, to give some colour to their unjust rage, represented him as a very bad man, and falsely accused him of many high crimes and misdemeanors, dressed him up in the skins of wild beasts that they might bait him. Innocency itself is no fence to the name, though it is to the bosom, against the darts of calumny…
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