John Gill Commentary Psalms 86:14

"O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a company of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set thee before them." — Psalms 86:14 (ASV)

O God, the proud are risen against me
As all men naturally are, and as all are without the grace of God; and because they are, they deal in proud wrath: as, through the pride of their heart, they seek not after God; so, through the same, they persecute his people, treating them with the utmost contempt, and as the offscouring of all things. Jarchi interprets this particularly of Doeg and Ahithophel:

and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul ;
or "terrible" ^F19 ones, who breathed out nothing but cruelty, threatenings, and slaughter; and who were many, and got together in bodies, and entered into combinations and conspiracies; and whom nothing would satisfy but the taking away of his life, which they sought after; see (Psalms 22:12–16)

and have not set thee before them ;
they did not consider the omniscience of God, that he knew and took notice of all they did; nor his omnipresence, that he was everywhere, and there was no fleeing from him; nor his omnipotence, who was able to crush them to pieces; nor his justice, which will render tribulation to them that trouble his; nor his goodness, which should lead to repentance; nor had they any fear of him, nor respect to his glory:

in short, they were like the unjust judge, who neither feared God nor regarded men, (Luke 18:4) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F19: (Myuyre) "terribilium", Montanus; so some in Vatablus, Gejerus, Michaelis.