Psalms 141:9,10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me Keep me from being taken in it: give me to discover and evade it. If Saul and his evil counsellors be intended in this clause, probably the heathen, to whom David was now driven for refuge, were meant in the next. They were workers of iniquity in the worst sense, being worshippers of idols, and their idols were always snares to the Israelites, as their history informs us, and as they were forewarned by God himself, Judges 2:3. Their gods will be a snare unto you, Hebrew, מוקשׁ, the same word with that translated, in the plural number, gins, in this verse. Let the wicked fall Hebrew, יפלו, they shall fall; into their own nets Into the snares, dangers, and mischiefs which they design for me. While that I withal escape Namely, together with my followers, or, in like manner, as I have formerly done. But many translators, both ancient and modern, join the word יחד, here rendered withal, or together, to the preceding clause to which it is placed next in the Hebrew, and then the meaning is, the wicked shall fall into their own nets together, or alike, one as well as another, Saul himself not excepted, (whom, though I dare not destroy him, God will judge,) while that I escape, am preserved from that common calamity in which mine enemies perish. Which was verified by the event. For David escaped all the snares which were laid for him on every side; and was strangely kept out of harm's way, when Saul and other of David's enemies were cut off by the Philistines, 1 Samuel 31. So will the devices of the enemies of God's people be in the end turned against themselves. They shall fall and perish, but the saved of the Lord shall triumph with their Redeemer to eternity. Reader, see that thou be one of these!