Verse 3
3. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes Literally, No thing of Belial, a designation of worthlessness, lowness, impiety. He would not propose to himself such, as an object of pursuit or desire. His state policy, like his private life, should be upright. With this verse begins especially his plan and vow of kingly conduct, as what precedes more fitly applies to his personal and private life.
Work of them that turn aside Literally, work of deviations; or, taken in the concrete, (as in Hosea 5:2; Psalms 40:5,) the work of revolters; men who depart, or diverge from, law and truth. Psalms 125:5
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