Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 26:4

4. I have not sate with vain persons , neither will I go in with dissemblers .

(i. e. Chosen or used to Converse with them: for sitting is a posture of Ease and of Continuance. I have been so far from an Approbation, or Imitation of the wicked Courses (where with mine Enemies reproach me) that I have avoided even their Company, and if accidentally I came into it, yet I would not abi[illegible: 1+ letters]e in it.

(i. e.) With Lyars, or false and decei[illegible: 1+ letters]ul Persons, as the next Clause explains it. And Vanity is very frequently put for Fal[illegible: 1+ letters]hood or Lying.

Into their Com [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ or with design to joyn in their Counsels or Courses, as the sa[illegible: 1+ letters]e Word is used, Ios. 23. 7. And Conversation is oft expressed by going out and coming in.

Heb. with such as hide [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word], covering their Crafty and wicked Designs with fair Pre[illegible: 1+ letters]nces. I abhor such Persons and Practises; though I am accused to be such an one.

Marginal references: Psal. 1. 1[illegible: 1+ letters] Jer. 15. 17.; Heb. clos[illegible: 1+ letters] [illegible: 1+ letters]ersons.