Here is, 1. David in danger of losing his life. There is but a step
between him and death, for the wicked have laid a snare for him; Saul
did so many a time, because he hated him for his piety. Wherever he was
he found some design or other laid against him to take away his life,
for it was that they aimed at. What they could not effect by open force
they hoped to compass by treachery, which made him say, My soul is
continually in my hand. It was so with him, not only as a man (so it is
true of us all; wherever we are we lie exposed to the strokes of death;
what we carry in our hands is easily snatched away from us by violence,
or if sandy, as our life is, it easily of itself slips through our
fingers), but as a man of war, a soldier, who often jeoparded his life
in the high places of the field, and especially as a man after God's
own heart, and, as such, hated and persecuted, and always delivered to
death (2 Cor. iv. 11), killed all the day long. 2. David in no danger
of losing his religion, notwithstanding this, thus in jeopardy every
hour and yet constant to God and his duty. None of these things move
him; for, (1.) He does not forget the law, and therefore he is likely
to persevere. In the multitude of his cares for his own safety he finds
room in his head and heart for the word of God, and has that in his
mind as fresh as ever; and where that dwells richly it will be a well
of living water. (2.) He has not yet erred from God's precepts, and
therefore it is to be hoped he will not. He had stood many a shock and
kept his ground, and surely that grace which had helped him hitherto
would not fail him, but would still prevent his wanderings.