And the gins of the workers of iniquity - Wicked men; men who seek my destruction. On the word gins, see the notes at Isaiah 8:14 . The gin is a trap or snare to catch birds or wild animals. The word used here is the same which occurs in Psalm 18:5 , and which is there rendered "snare." See the notes at that passage. Compare also Psalm 64:5 ; Psalm 69:22 ; Psalm 106:36 ; Psalm 140:5 , where the same word occurs. Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,.... Either Saul, who gave him a wife to be a snare to him, and set men to watch his house and take him; or the Ziphites, who proposed to Saul to deliver him into his hands; see 1 Samuel 18:21 . and the gins of the workers of iniquity; the transgressions of wicked men are snares to others, by way of example; and so are the doctrines of false teachers, and the temptations of Satan, from all which good men desire to be kept, Proverbs 29:6 ; and it is the Lord alone that keeps and preserves from them, or breaks the snare and delivers them, Psalm 124:7 . 141:5-10 We should be ready to welcome the rebuke of our heavenly Father, and also the reproof of our brethren. It shall not break my head, if it may but help to break my heart: we must show that we take it kindly. Those who slighted