Tehillim 141:9

9 Keep me from the pach (snare, trap) which they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.

Tehillim 141:9 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 141:9

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 ) ( 19:11 ) ( 1 Samuel 23:19 1 Samuel 23:20 ) .

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 ) ( Hosea 9:8 ) ( 2 Timothy 2:26 ) ; and it is the Lord alone that keeps and preserves from them, or breaks the snare and delivers them, ( Psalms 124:7 ) .

Tehillim 141:9 In-Context

7 Atzameinu (our bones) are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon ha’aretz.

8 But mine eyes are unto Thee, Hashem Adonoi; in Thee do I take refuge; leave not my nefesh defenseless.

9 Keep me from the pach (snare, trap) which they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.

10 Let the resha’im fall into their own nets, while I escape safely.