Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 141:4

4 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 .

Suffer it not to be inclined or led aside either by my own errours or lusts, or by the temptations of the world or of the Devil. Thus God is frequently said to harden mens hearts not positively, for he can do no evil, nor tempt any man to it, Iam. 1. 13. but privatively, by denying sof[illegible: 1+ letters]ning grace.

Keep me not onely from wicked speeches, v. 3. but from all evil motions of my heart, which otherwise will draw me to many evil speeches and actions.

Either, 1. to joyn with them in their sinful courses: or, 2. to do wickedly as they do.

Let me never enjoy or desire worldly comforts upon such terms as they do, to wit, with Gods wrath and curse, as instruments of wickedness, and of my own eternal destruction. My afflictions are more desirable than such prosperity. Let none of their sweet morsels, the pleasures o[illegible: 1+ letters] advantages, which they gain by their wickedness, tempt me to approve of or imitate their ways.