The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 101:4

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

A froward heart shall depart from me; i.e. I will put away from me all perversity of heart; I will root it out and rid myself of it. I will not know a wicked person. This is a possible meaning, but it is better to translate, with our Revisers, "I will know no evil thing."

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