Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 39:8

"Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish." — Psalms 39:8 (ASV)

Here the psalmist recurs to his initial thought, but lets us see deeper down into his heart. It was no mere fancy that if he gave vent to his feelings the wicked might find cause for reproach; the cause was there in his own consciousness of transgression.

The reproach of the foolish. —Better, The scorn of the fool. .