The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 19:13

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins (comp. Exodus 21:14; Numbers 15:30; Deuteronomy 17:12). Wilful, intentional, deliberate sins are intended—such as cut off from grace. They are called "presumptuous ones," being "personified as tyrants who strive to bring the servant of God into unbecoming subjection to them" (Hengstenberg).

Let them not have dominion over me (comp. Psalms 119:133; Romans 6:14). Then shall I be upright; or, "blameless" ( ἄμωμος, LXX.). And I shall be innocent from the great transgression. There is no article in the original.

Translate, and innocent of great transgression (see the Revised Version).

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