Discovery of Concealed Sin
A. Maclaren, D. D. Psalm 139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. : — Those people in India, in the last plague, gave no end of trouble to the sanitary authorities because they would hide away the corpses in the back of their hovels, and when the dead-cart came round said that there were no dead in the house; and so the corpse remained to poison the atmosphere and kill some more of them. If we keep our sins huddled up in the back premises of our nature and try to put a screen between them and God by impenitence and locking our lips against confession, then God cannot cast out the sins that we cling to, and will keep. But if we go to Him and say, "See if there be any wicked way in me. Come into the very innermost recesses of my soul, and whatsoever is there smite with Thy searching light," which, like the old Greek legend of the arrows of Apollo, will slay the pythons, then God will answer the petition, and we shall be delivered. (A. Maclaren, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. WEB: See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.