Psalms 26:9 - Exposition

Gather not my soul with sinners . Unite me not in one doom with open sinners—those with whom I have always refused to consort ( Psalms 26:4 , Psalms 26:5 )—whose congregation I have "hated." "That the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" ( Genesis 18:25 ). Nor my life with bloody men . Bloody men—literally, men of bloods — are the worst of wicked men, cut-throats, assassins, murderers. At any rate, put me not on a par with them. Little, probably, did the psalmist think at this time how soon he was to become, practically, a murderer, and to "slay Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the children of Ammon" ( 2 Samuel 12:9 )