John Trapp on Psalms 26:9

Verſ. 9. Gather not my ſoul with ſinners] I have loved thy Houſe, which ſinners never delighted in; therefore gather not my ſoul with ſinners; ſo the Syriack ſenſeth it. Let me not dye the death of Sinners, for I never cared for their company; ſo the Rabbines. See the Note on verſ. 5. Let me not ſhare with them in puniſhment, for I could never abide their practice. Balaam would dye the death of the righteous, but he liked not of their life. Euchrites would be Craeſus vivens, & Socrates mortuus. Sir Walter Rawleigh would live a Papiſt (there being no Religion like that for Licentious liberty, and laſciviouſneſs) but dye a Proteſtant. We have ſome that would gladly dance with the Devil all day, and then ſup with Chriſt at night; live all their lives long in Dalilaes lap, and then go to Abrahams boſome when they dye. But this cannot be, as David well underſtood; and therefore both eſchewed the life of a wicked perſon, and deprecated his death; Gather not, or take not away, &c. The righteous is taken away (Heb. gathered, Iſa. 57.1. as men gather Flowers and candy them, preſerve them) with ſuch to be gathered, David would hold it an happineſs, but not with ſinners, with ſanguinaries; for ſuch are gathered but as houſe-duſt, to be caſt out of doors.