Psalms 39:1

I said To myself: I resolved, as the result of self-communing. Cp. Psalms 30:6; Psalms 31:14.

I will take heed to my ways Lit. I will keep my ways:keep watch and ward over thought word and action. Cp. Proverbs 16:17; and the often repeated exhortation in Deuteronomy to -take heed" (Deuteronomy 4:9; &c.). He fears that he may sin with his tongue (Job 31:30) by murmuring against God as he contrasts the prosperity of the wicked with his own lot of trial. Cp. Job 1:22; Job 2:10; and generally Psalms 37, 73.

I will keep&c. Lit. I will keep a muzzle for my mouth. Cp. Psalms 141:3. Perhaps with the LXX, we should read I will put … on.

while the wickedis before me For the sight of their prosperity is a temptation. Cp. Habakkuk 1:3. This seems to be the sense, rather than that he was afraid of giving way to complaints in the hearing of the wicked, which might give occasion for ridicule or blasphemy.