The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteouness. It was from no arbitrary favouritism, but on the eternal law of His government, that God vindicated me. Compare Deuteronomy 28:1-68. The charge of self-righteousness cannot be brought against David; because the righteousness which he claims is not that which is free from infirmity (Psalms 19:12-13), but the righteousness of sincere striving by faith after holiness, as contrasted with wickedness and hypocrisy. His aim, too, is, not to praise self, but to magnify righteousness as the way to deliverance, in answer to prayer.