Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
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Gill's Exposition
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,.... Either Saul, who gave him a wife to be a snare to him, and set men to watch his house and take him; or the Ziphites, who proposed to Saul to…
Barnes' Notes
Keep me from the snares ... - See the notes at Psa 11:6. Compare Psa 38:12; Psa 69:22; Psa 91:3. The secret plans which they have laid against me. And the gins of the workers of iniquity - Wicked men;…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Cp. Psa 140:4-5.
grins Rather, baits or lures, the sensual temptations by which they are endeavouring to entice him (Psa 141:141). For grinssee on Psa 140:5.
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