John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, And from the gins of the workers of iniquity." — Psalms 141:9 (ASV)
Keep me from the snare [which] they have laid for me
Either Saul, who gave him a wife to be a snare to him, and set men to watch his house and take him; or the Ziphites, who proposed to Saul to deliver him into his hands; see (1 Samuel 18:21) (19:11) (1 Samuel 23:19 1 Samuel 23:20) .
and the gins of the workers of iniquity ;
the transgressions of wicked men are snares to others, by way of example; and so are the doctrines of false teachers, and the temptations of Satan, from all which good men desire to be kept, (Proverbs 29:6) (Hosea 9:8) (2 Timothy 2:26) ; and it is the Lord alone that keeps and preserves from them, or breaks the snare and delivers them, (Psalms 124:7) .