Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 31:20

"In the covert of thy presence wilt thou hide them from the plottings of man: Thou wilt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues." — Psalms 31:20 (ASV)

The secret of your presence. — Better, in the hiding-place of your countenance, a beautiful thought and common in the Psalms, although expressed by different images. In Psalms 27:5, it is “the hiding-place of his tabernacle”; in Psalms 61:4, “of his wings”; and in Psalms 91:1, “of his shadow.”

The form the same image takes in the Christian’s hope is beautifully expressed by Tennyson:
“To lie within the light of God as I lie upon your breast,
And the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.”

Pride. — Better, rough or wrangling talk, as the parallelism shows and the Septuagint confirms; and, referring back to Psalms 31:18, Gesenius renders the word “conspiracies.”