Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Draw me not - the 'supplication' which in Psalms 28:1-2, he had entreated God to "hear;" substantially the same as Psalms 26:9. "Draw me not is an image from a net, into which all kinds of fish are indiscriminately drawn. Consign me not to the same common destruction with the wicked (Job 21:33; Job 24:22; Ezekiel 32:2; Psalms 10:9). It is impossible that the righteous God should "destroy the righteous with the wicked" (Genesis 18:23). A very different drawing is described here from that (in Hosea 11:4) wherewith God "drew" the Israelites "with bands of love."
And with the ... speak peace ... but mischief is in their hearts - intestine foes and hypocritical dissemblers, like Absalom and his party; not open enemies (2 Samuel 15:7-8). There is a play of like sounds in the Hebrew "neighbour" and "mischief" х ree`eeyhem (H7453) raa`aah (H7451)], implying how utterly they perverted the most sacred ties, making their very neighbours objects of mischief (cf. Psalms 15:3).