Psalms 25:21

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me -The word here rendered “integrity” means properly “perfection.” See it explained in the notes atJob 1:1. The language here may refer either: (a) to God - as denoting His perfection and uprightness, and then the psalmist’s prayer would be that He, a righteous God, would keep him; or (b) to his own integrity and uprightness of character, and then the prayer would be that that might be the means of keeping him, as the ground of his safety, under the government of a righteous God; or, (c) which I think the more probable meaning, it may be the utterance of