Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts: And see if (there be any) wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. David, conscious of his integrity in his walk with God, asks that the Lord shall prove him, that so he may have a well-grounded hope, of the promised blessing. "Wicked way" - literally, 'way of pain' (Psalms 16:4). It stands in opposition to "the way everlasting," the way which leads to everlasting blessedness: answering to 'the mercy of the Lord enduring forever' (Psalms 138:8). The Hebrew х `otsem (H6108)] may also mean, as in Isaiah 48:5, 'any way of an idol.' "Way" is often, used of a system of worship. Compare Amos 8:14, "The manner" or 'way of Beersheba' (Acts 19:9; Acts 19:23). The way of idolatry, in however refined a form, proves to be a way of pain, and shuts out from the way everlasting promised to David in Messiah his seed (1 John 5:21).