Meaning, organization, and interpretation (Psalm 139)

Excerpt from The Psalms of the Return by Michael D. Goulder (Sheffield Academic Press, 1998):
"Psalm 139.1-6. The psalm is the second of a sequence, (138-145).  For David (inscription): the continual reference to trouble and enemies recalls the David Psalms of 51 - 72 and 3 - 41, with a psalm of praise (Ps. 145) to close.  The call for Yahweh to try his heart, together with a disapproval of the wicked, recalls Psalm 26 especially; there are men of blood in Ps. 55:24 and a book of destiny at 56:9.  . . . The psalm was written as a whole; it begins with an assertion of Yahweh's searching and knowing the singer's whole life (verses 1, 2a) and ends with a prayer for the searching and knowing to continue (verse 23); God's hand will lead him (verses 10, 24) in the way (verses 3, 24).  The divine gaze penetrates every action and every word, from his settling and lying down at night to his uprising in the morning. . .Everything he says and does is open to Yahweh, and all is in accordance with his Law; he is pure, God has beset him behind and before, like a besieging army, as he did with Job (Job 19:8) he has laid his hand on him, like a magistrate restraining someone from wrongdoing (Job 9:33).  He has never been able to go wrong. Like Job he marvels at the divine providence (Job 42:3)."
"Psalm 139.23-24.  The psalmist closes on a more positive note, as is normal.  He is confident in his righteousness, and prays for a final searching and trying; he knows that his thoughts will pass muster and that  God will see no way of grief in him.  What he really wants is divine guidance, to be led.  There is a way of permanence, the high road of history which God has planned ahead in his book, and that is where the speaker wishes to set his feet.  The parallel with Jeremiah continues to the end. . .Jeremiah has all four themes of Psalm 139: God's knowledge of his purity, the inescapable eye of Yahweh, his preordaining of his servant to a frightening vocation, and his prayer for the slaughter of the wicked. . ."