As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
PSALM 141 Whatever may have been the immediate cause pressing David to pray in the manner he does in this Psalm, Many commentators are strongly of opinion, that this Psalm was written as a memorial of that very interesting scene in the life of David, recorded in 1 Samuel 24, relating to his generous treatment of Saul.
Commenting on Psalm 141:1-10
David's case seemed hopeless: the cause of God in Israel was as a dead thing, even as a skeleton broken, and rotten, and shovelled out of the grave, to return as dust to its dust. Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth.
Here, I. David desires to be told of his faults. His enemies reproached him with that which was false, which he could not but complain of; yet, at the same time, he desired his friends would reprove him for that which was really amiss in him, particularly if there was any thing that gave the least colour to those reproaches (Psa 141:5): let the righteous...
Commenting on Psalm 141:5-10