Here is, 1. The great distress that David was in. He was in affliction,
and ready to perish in his affliction, not likely to die, so much as
likely to despair; he was ready to give up all for gone, and to look
upon himself as cut off from God's sight; he therefore admires the
goodness of God to him, that he had not perished, that he kept the
possession of his own soul, and was not driven out of his wits by his
troubles, but especially that he was enabled to keep close to his God
and was not driven off from his religion by them. Though we are not
kept from affliction, yet, if we are kept from perishing in our
affliction, we have no reason to say, We have cleansed our hands in
vain; or, What profit is it that we have served God? 2. His support in
this distress. God's law was his delight, (1.) It had been so formerly,
and the remembrance of that was a comfort to him, as it afforded him a
good evidence of his integrity. (2.) It was so now in his affliction;
it afforded him abundant matter of comfort, and from these fountains of
life he drew living waters, when the cisterns of the creature were
broken or dried up. His converse with God's law, and his meditations on
it, were his delightful entertainment in solitude and sorrow. A Bible
is a pleasant companion at any time if we please.