The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Ver. 5. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight] Heb. before thine eyes, as thy favourites and attendants. Those furious, vain glorious mad caps, as they call them, roisterers, rioters, roaring boys, as they delight to call themselves by a woeful prolepsis of the present for the future. The word is used for mad, or raving with folly, Ecclesiastes 2:2; Ecclesiastes 2:12; Ecclesiastes 7:9; Ecclesiastes 10:13; Isa 44:25; Psalms 75:5; Psalms 73:3. God hath no need of such madmen, as Achish, king of Gath, said, when they brought David before him, and he feigned himself distracted. We likewise must have no fellowship with such, Ephesians 5:11, but reprove them rather.
Thou hatest all workers of iniquity] Though they not only act it, but art it, polish and trim their sin, that it may seem less heinons, as hypocrites do, who hide their wickedness with no less subtle sleights than Rachel hid the idols, Rahab the spies. But God will detect and detest them. See Trapp on " Psa 5:4 "