Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 52:3

3. Thou lovest evil more than good : and lying rather than to speak righteousness , Selah.

Evil and Good may be here taken; Either, 1. Morally. Thou lovest Wickedness and not Goodness: for so Comparative passages are oft meant, as Psal. 118. 8. It is better to trust in the Lord, then to put Confidence in Man: (i. e.) It is good to trust God, but it is not good to trust Man; for this is absolutely forbidden, Psal. 146. 3. Ier. 17. 5. Or, 2. Physically. Thou lovest to speak or Act to the hurt and Ruin of others, rather than to their Benefit. Thou mightest, without any Danger to thy self, have been silent concerning [illegible: 1 word] 's Fact; or have put a Favourable Construction upon it; but thou hast chosen rather to mis-represent and Aggravate it. He saith, thou lovest, to imply that he did this not by any Constraint or Necessity, but by choice, and with Complacency, and out of a Love to mischief.

Whereof Doeg was guilty; Partly, in reporting that hi (i. e. Abime[illegible: 1+ letters]ech) enqqired of the Lord for him, (David,) 1 Sam 22. 10. which he did not Ch. 21. where all that History is recorded; and Partly, in putting a false Interpretation upon what he did, in giving him Victuals, and a Sword, as if he had done it knowingly, and in Compi [illegible: 1+ letters]acy with David, and against Saul, as appears by comparing D[illegible: 1+ letters]eg's Answer with Saul's enquiry, 1 Sam. 22. 7, 8.

(i. e.) The whole and naked Truth, without any such lying, or Malitious Comment upon it, which was but an Act of Justice, due from thee to any. Man, and much more on the behalf of so innocent and Sacred a Person.