John Calvin Commentary Psalms 28:3

"Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts." — Psalms 28:3 (ASV)

Draw me not away with wicked men. The meaning is that, in circumstances so dissimilar, God should not mingle the righteous with the wicked in the same indiscriminate destruction. Undoubtedly, too, in speaking of his enemies, he indirectly asserts his own integrity. But he did not pray in this manner because he thought that God was indiscriminately and unreasonably angry with people. Instead, he reasons from the nature of God that he ought to cherish good hope, because it was God’s prerogative to distinguish between the righteous and the wicked and to give everyone their due reward.

By the workers of iniquity, he means people wholly addicted to wickedness. The children of God sometimes fall, commit errors, and act amiss in one way or another, but they take no pleasure in their evil doings; the fear of God, on the contrary, stirs them up to repentance. David afterwards defines and enlarges upon the wickedness of those whom he describes. For, under pretense of friendship, they perfidiously deceived good people, professing one thing with their tongue while they entertained a very different thing in their hearts.

Open depravity is easier to bear than this craftiness of the fox, when people put on fair appearances to find an opportunity to do mischief. This truth, accordingly, admonishes us that those who attack the simple and unwary with fair speeches, as with poison, are most detestable in God’s sight.