Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 18:23

23. I was also upright before him : and I kept my self from mine iniquity .

I did not pretend Religion before men for my own Ends, but did approve my Heart and ways to the all-seeing God.

(i. e.) From that sin which I was most inclined, or tempted: Either, 1. From my. Hereditary and natural Corruption, so far that it should not have Dominion over me, nor break forth into any Presumptuous or Scandalous sins. Or rather, 2. From the sin of killing Saul, which might be called his sin, because this might seem most agreeable and desireable to him both as a Man and as a Souldier, and as anointed to be King, as being a likely way, both to revenge and to preserve and to advance himself; to which also he might seem to be both invited by the fair Opportunity which Providence had put into his Hand, 1 Sam. 24. 4. and 26. 8. and necessitated by Saul's implacable Malice, and his own perpetual and extream Dangers and Distresses; and to which he was so strongly tempted by his own followers, in the place now quoted.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 word] Job 11. 4.