John Gill Commentary Psalms 140:4

"Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from the violent man: Who have purposed to thrust aside my steps." — Psalms 140:4 (ASV)

Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked
From falling into their hands, and the weight of them; and from their laying hands on him, being men of power and authority;

preserve me from the violent man :
or men, everyone of them; (See Gill on Psalms 140:1);

who have purposed to overthrow my goings :
to supplant him; to cause him to stumble and fall, to his disgrace and reproach; and that they might take an advantage of him, and an occasion against him. Arama interprets it, to drive me out of the land of Israel; see (1 Samuel 26:1 1 Samuel 26:9) . So Christ's enemies thought to have supplanted him, and have found something against him, to accuse him of to Caesar, (Matthew 22:15–22) .