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Psalms 141:4

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, permitting it to follow its natural tendency in this respect, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity, joining them in the wickedness in which they are so thoroughly at home; and let me not eat of their dainties, not taste and partake of the sensuous enjoyments of those who have gained their possessions unjustly. But the believer is willing also to accept the reproof of his brethren in the faith.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 141:4. _LET ME EAT NOT OF THEIR DAINTIES._] This may refer either to eating things _forbidden by the law_; or to the partaking in _banquets_ or _feasts in honour of idols_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    INCLINE NOT MY HEART TO ANY EVIL THING - Hebrew, to a word that is evil; that is, wrong. The connection seems to demand that the term should be thus explained. The expression “Incline not” is not desi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PSALM 140-142 These three Psalms are Psalms of David. The third one in this series, 142 is another Maschil, the last Maschil Psalm, being a prayer when David was in the cave. In these Psalms the distr...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CXLI. FOR LOYALTY TO GOD AND HIS SAINTS. Psalms 141:1 f. The Psalmist begs Yahweh to hear his prayer. He utters this prayer in his house, and in true prophetic spirit hopes that it will be as acceptab...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. WICKED. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. MEN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avert._ App-44. EAT: i.e. partake of, or have fellowship with. DAINTIES. pleasant...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Prayer for grace to resist the temptation to sin in word and thought and deed....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Incline not my heart_&c. Leave me not by the withdrawal of Thy grace, to turn aside from the path of right. Cp. Psalms 119:10; Psalms 119:133. _to practise_&c. To occupy myself in wicked practices wi...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SET A WATCH, O LORD, &C.— Mr. Peters paraphrases these two verses thus: "I am now going to seek a retreat from the persecutions of my master Saul, amidst a race of idolaters, who will be curious to ob...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 141 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Temptation to Conspiracy Shunned. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 141:1-3, Prayer for Guarded Speech. Stanza II., Psalms 141:4-5, Danger from Proffered Hospitalities. St

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. SET A WATCH, O LORD, BEFORE MY MOUTH ... INCLINE NOT MY HEART TO ANY EVIL THING, TO PRACTICE WICKED WORKS - (cf. .) God, in judicial...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    An evening prayer in time of trouble. The Psalmist prays that he may be strengthened to resist temptation, and so escape the fate of evil men....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ AN EVENING *PRAYER PSALMS 141 Jesus said, "What will a man have if he buys the whole world but loses his own soul?" ...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO PRACTISE WICKED WORKS... — The Vulg., _ad excusandas excusationes,_ following the LXX., not only preserves the expressive assonance of the original, but probably conveys its meaning better than the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַל ־תַּט ־לִבִּ֨י לְ דָבָ֪ר ׀ רָ֡ע לְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 141:1 PART of this psalm is hopelessly obscure, and the connection is difficult throughout. It is a prayer of a harassed soul, tempted to slacken its hold on God, and therefore betaking itself...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      HUMILITY Psalms 141:1-10 This is an evening psalm. Acceptable prayer is as the smoke of incense rising in the still air, Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3-4. Each day we should ask to be delivered f...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this song the influence of the external troubles upon the inner life of the singer is revealed. Throughout it breathes the spirit of fear lest the soul should be seduced from the attitude of whole-...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their (d) dainties. (d) Let not their prosperity lure me to be wicked as they are...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Knewest. With approbation, (Psalm i. 6.; Haydock) my department towards Saul, and also the dangers to which I was exposed, and the means of escaping. --- They. Ancient psalters add, "the proud," from...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How earnest is a child of God, that he should act and live as becometh a child of God. He knows full well, that unless the Lord keep the heart, the lips will utter foolishness. And when the Lord dispo...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 140 THROUGH 144. The five following psalms go over ground which we have trodden over in detail: only they apply to a restored Israel, still in conflict, and not...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INCLINE NOT MY HEART TO [ANY] EVIL THING,.... Or "evil word" z, as the Targum; since out of the abundance of that the mouth speaketh, Matthew 12:34; or to any sinful thing, to the commission of any ev...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. Ver. 4. _Incline not my heart_] Out of the abundance of the heart...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Set a watch before my mouth_ That I may not, through mine own infirmity, and the great provocation of mine enemies, break forth into any unadvised speeches, or any expressions of impatience, distrust...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 Make haste unto me. Those that know how to value God's gracious presence, will be the more fervent in their prayers. When presented through the sacrifice and intercession of the Saviour, they wil...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    INCLINE NOT; suffer it not to be inclined or led aside, either by my own errors or lusts, or by the temptations of the world or of the devil. Thus God is frequently said to _harden men's hearts_, not...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 141:4 incline H5186 (H8686) heart H3820 evil H7451 thing H1697 practice H5953 (H8705) wicked H7562 works...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 141:1. _LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee._ You see how a child of God prays when he is in trouble. David says, «I cry unto thee,» and the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prayer for God's favorable acceptance and powerful assistance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Though the snares be placed by the enemy with ever so much subtlety, God can, and will, s...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This psalm, like the last, is generally supposed to have been composed by David during his persecution by Saul, probably when he fled to Achish. The late Rev. Mr. Peters, a Cornish clergyman, has favo...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Lord, I cry unto Thee._ AN INVOCATION FOR THE TRULY DESIRABLE IN HUMAN LIFE: - I. Divine attention to human aspirations (verses 1, 2). 1. For immediate attention. 2. For favourable attention. II...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 141:1. This is an individual lament, a prayer that God will protect the faithful person against all insincerity and compromise....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 141:3 The singer may be tempted to avoid danger by joining the MEN WHO WORK INIQUITY; he asks God to help him avoid all such temptation. This prayer reveals great insight into how...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “This Psalm presents,” says Perowne, “some peculiar difficulties of Interpretation, which, however, are due neither to the words employed nor to the grammatical construction, but to the e...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ALMOST wholly a psalm of supplication. David is again in danger, and needs a prompt deliverance (Psalms 141:1). This time the danger seems to be that he may fall away, and be absorbed into...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 140:1-13, another psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. T...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:27; 1 Corinthians 10:28; 1 Corinthians 10:31; 1 Corinthians 15:33;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Incline not — Suffer it not to be inclined. Heart — Keep me not only from wicked speeches, but from all evil motions of my heart. Dainties — The pleasures or advantages which they gain by their wicked...

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