Here is, 1. David pious and yet poor. He was a man after God's own
heart, one whom the King of kings did delight to honour, and yet small
and despised in his own account and in the account of many others.
Men's excellency cannot always secure them from contempt; nay, it often
exposes them to the scorn of others and always makes them low in their
own eyes. God has chosen the foolish things of the world, and it has
been the common lot of his people to be a despised people. 2. David
poor and yet pious, small and despised for his strict and serious
godliness, yet his conscience can witness for him that he did not
forget God's precepts. He would not throw off his religion, though it
exposed him to contempt, for he knew that was designed to try his
constancy. When we are small and despised we have the more need to
remember God's precepts, that we may have them to support us under the
pressures of a low condition.