Psalm 16:3
Thou hast proved my heart, O Lord, and visited it by night. Thou hast tried me by fire, and iniquity hath not been found in me.
Haydock
Verse 3. Fire. I have experienced all sorts of misery. C. — Iniquity. Heb. “Thou hast not found; I have thought.” But the same word without points, zamothi, (H.) has the sense given by the Sept. and they knew nothing of these points. Bert. — We may also translate, “Thou hast not found in me any criminal thoughts. My mouth has not transgressed thy orders.” If some thoughts of taking revenge by killing Saul, presented themselves involuntarily, David repressed them; (C.) and when he was alone with him at night in a cave, he would not suffer him to be hurt, 1 K. xxvi. 7. Theod. — He asserts that he had gone through tribulations without offending. Those who are innocent or penitent, may pray with this confidence; as the Church may, which has always some saints, on which account she is styled holy. W.