Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 16:2

2. O my soul , thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord : my goodness , extendeth not to thee ;

Which words are fitly understood: For it is manifest he speaks to one Person of another. And it is usual with David to turn his Speech to his Soul, as Psal. 42. 6. and 43. 5.

Thou hast oft times avowed and professed it, and dost still persist to do so.

By Creation and preservation and otherwise; to whom I owe all Service and Obedience upon that account.

Whatsoever Piety or Vertue, or Goodness is in me, or is done by me.

(i. e.) Doth not add any thing to thy Felicity, for thou dost not need me nor my Service, nor art capable of any advantage from it: Or, is not for thee, as this word is used, Gen. 16. 5. 2 Sam. 1. 26. (i. e.) For thy use or Benefit. Or, is not upon thee, (i. e.) It lays no Obligation upon thee, as this very word is taken, Iudg. 19. 20. Psal. 56. 12. Ezek. 45. 17. All comes to the same thing. The Sence is, God is al-sufficient and infinitely happy, and the Author of all the good that is in, or is done by any of his Creatures; and therefore cannot prevent nor oblige God any further, than he is graciously pleased to oblige himself. Thus he renounceth all Opinion of merit, and though he urged his trust in God, as a motive to perswade God to preserve him, v. 1. yet he here declares that he did not do it, as thinking that God was indebted to him for it.

Marginal references: Psal. 16. 2.; Iob. 22. 2. & 35. 7. Psal. 50. 9. Rom. 11. 35.