Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
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Gill's Exposition
Incline not my heart to any evil thing,.... Or "evil word" (z), as the Targum; since out of the abundance of that the mouth speaketh, Mat 12:34; or to any sinful thing, to the commission of any evil…
Barnes' Notes
Incline not my heart to any evil thing - Hebrew, to a word that is evil; that is, wrong. The connection seems to demand that the term should be thus explained. The expression “Incline not” is not…
Mercy to accept what we do well, and grace to keep us from doing ill, are the two things which we are here taught by David's example to pray to God for.
I. David loved prayer, and he begs of God that…
Cambridge Bible
Incline not my heart&c. Leave me not by the withdrawal of Thy grace, to turn aside from the path of right. Cp. Psa 119:10; Psa 119:133.
to practise&c. To occupy myself in wicked practices with men who…
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