John Gill Commentary 1 Samuel 25:33

"and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging myself with mine own hand." — 1 Samuel 25:33 (ASV)

And blessed [be] your advice
Thanks be to God, and to you for it, being wise, good, and seasonable; or "your taste" ^F7 , your good sense, knowledge, as the Targum, discretion, prudence, and understanding:

and blessed [be] you who have kept me this day from coming to [shed]
blood ;
he came out with a full resolution to shed the blood of Nabal, and of all the males in his house, but was stopped by Abigail; who by her arguments so prevailed upon him as to cause him to desist from his design, and thankful he was to God for it; for though he had vowed he would destroy Nabal and his family, yet being a rash sinful vow, he saw it was better to break it than to keep it:

and from avenging myself with mine own hand ;
which to do would have been sinful, vengeance only belonging to God; and now he leaves it to him, and is very thankful that he was prevented doing it himself.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F7: (Kmej) "sapor tuus", Piscator; "discretio tua", Montanus.