85. David’s foes went laboriously and cunningly to work to ruin him: they digged pits; not one, but many. Whereas they ought to have been ashamed of such meanness, they were conscious of no shame, but on the contrary were proud of their cleverness, proud of setting a trap for a godly man. Which are not after thy law. Neither the men nor their pits were according to the divine law: they were cruel and crafty deceivers, and their pits were contrary to the command which bids us love our neighbor. If people would keep to the statutes of the Lord, they would lift the fallen out of the pit, or fill up the pit so that none might stumble into it; but they would never spend a moment in working injury to others. When, however, they become proud, they are sure to despise others; and for this reason they seek to circumvent them, that they may afterwards hold them up to ridicule. It was well for David that his enemies were God’s enemies, and that their attacks upon him had no sanction from the Lord. While he kept to the law of the Lord he was safe.
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