David
Psalm 26:9ESV·traditional attribution

Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

John Calvin Reformed @genevareformer

PSALM 26. This psalm, for the most part, is similar to the preceding. The prophet, oppressed with numerous wrongs, and finding no succor in the world, implores the aid of God, entreating him to undertake the cause of a man unrighteously afflicted, and to assert his innocence.

Commenting on Psalm 26:1-12

C.H. Spurgeon Reformed Baptist @princeofpreachers

Gather not my soul with sinners. Lord, when, like fruit, I must be gathered, put me not in the same basket with the best of sinners, much less with the worst of them. The company of sinners is so distasteful to us here, that we cannot endure the thought of being bound up in the same bundle with them to all eternity.

Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

In these verses, I. David mentions, as further evidence of his integrity, the sincere affection he had to the ordinances of God, the constant care he took about them, and the pleasure he took in them. Hypocrites and dissemblers may indeed be found attending on God's ordinances, as the proud Pharisee went up to the temple to pray with the penitent publican; but it is...

Commenting on Psalm 26:6-12