"Preserve my soul, for I am godly" (86:2). Isn't that a proud thing to say to God?

The psalm doesn't explain the word, and these notes don't add an explanation. Here is what the text shows. Godly is chasid (tap godly), which Brown-Driver-Briggs gives as "kind, pious". Strong's gives it as "from 2616", and gives chesed, the psalm's loving kindness (86:5, 86:13, 86:15), as "from 2616" too. Psalm 4 has the word as well: "But know that the LORD has set apart for himself him who is godly" (Psalm 4:3). In the same verse the psalmist says whom he trusts: "You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you" (86:2). In the verse before, he calls himself "poor and needy" (86:1), and in the verse after, he asks, "Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long" (86:3). And two verses on he says of God: "For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you" (86:5). The psalm sets these side by side, and these notes don't say more than it says.