Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 28:3

3. Draw me not away with the wicked , and with the workers of iniquity: which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their heart .

The Sence is, Either, 1. Do not suffer me to be drawn away by their Counsel, or Example to imitate their evil Courses. For God is oft said to do that which he doth not Effect, but only permit and Order, as 2 Sam. 12. 12. Or, 2. Do not draw me into the same snares and mischief with them: do not drag me, as thou dost or wilst do all these Malefactors, to Execution, and Destruction. Let me not dye the Death of the wicked: Comp. Psal. 26. 9. Thus drawing is used for drawing to Death. Iob. 21. 33. Ezek. 32. 20. This seems best to suit with the following Context, wherein he imprecateth and foretelleth that Destruction upon his Enemies, which he deprecated for himself.

Which are Hypocritical and perfidious Persons, whilst I through thy Grace am upright and sincere. Seeing then I am so unlike them in Disposition and Practice, let me not be made like them in their Ruine.

Marginal references: Psal. 12. 2. & 55. 21. & 62. 4. Jer. 9. 8.