Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 18:21

21. For I have kept the ways of the LORD , and have not wickedly departed from my God .

I have observed and obeyed his Precepts, and made mine own Will, and Passions and Interest stoop to them.

(i. e.) I have not knowingly and wilfully forsaken God, and broken his Laws as wicked men do. Which he adds by way of Correction and Explication, lest the former or following Clauses, should be interpreted as a Profession of such a perfect and Sinless righteousness, whereby he might in strict Justice be justified by, and before God; which he elsewhere utterly disowns, Psal. 130. 3. and 143. 2. and which David, especially towards the end of his days, (when this Psalm was Composed, as the Title shews) could not pretend to without great Arrogancy and Falshood, as having been guilty of those great Sins of Murder and Adu[illegible: 1+ letters]tery, and many other Errors, as he confesseth, Psal. 19. 12. and oft elsewhere: