{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa010.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa010.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa010.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nThese are, of course, figurative terms (compare Psa 7:6; Psa 13:1, &c.).\nhidest--Supply \"thine eyes\" or \"face.\"\nLiterally, \"In pride of the wicked they (the poor or humble, Psa 10:17; Psa 12:5) shall be taken in the devices they (the proud) have imagined.\"\nheart's--or, \"soul's.\"\ndesire--that is, his success in evil.\nand blesseth, &c.--he (the wicked) blesseth the covetous, he despiseth the Lord.\nThe face expresses the self-conceit, whose fruit is practical atheism (Psa 14:1).\nSuch is his confidence in the permanence of his way or course of life, that he disregards God's providential government (out of sight, because he will not look, Isa 26:11), sneers at his enemies, and boasts perpetual freedom from evil.\nThe malignity and deceit (Psa 140:3) of such are followed by acts combining cunning, fraud, and violence (compare Pro 1:11, Pro 1:18), aptly illustrated by the habits of the lion, and of hunters taking their prey. \"Poor,\" in Psa 10:8, Psa 10:10, Psa 10:14, represents a word peculiar to this Psalm, meaning the sad or sorrowful; in Psa 10:9, as usual, it means the pious or meek sufferer.\neyes . . . privily--He watches with half-closed eyes, appearing not to see.\ncroucheth--as a lion gathers himself into as small compass as possible to make the greater spring.\nfall by his strong ones--The figure of the lion is dropped, and this phrase means the accomplices of the chief or leading wicked man.\nAs before, such conduct implies disbelief or disregard of God's government.\n(Compare Psa 9:19; Psa 3:7).\nthe humble--(Compare Psa 10:17, and Margin.)\nlift up thine hand--exert thy power.\nIt is in vain to suppose God will overlook sin, however forbearing; for He carefully examines or beholds all wickedness, and will mark it by His providential (Thine hand) punishment.\nmischief and spite--provocation and trouble of the sufferer (compare Psa 6:7; Psa 7:14).\ncommitteth--or, \"leaves (his burden) on Thee.\"\narm--power.\ntill thou find none--So far from not requiting (Psa 10:11, Psa 10:13), God will utterly destroy the wicked and his deeds (Psa 9:5-6; Psa 34:16; Psa 37:36).\nGod reigns. The wicked, if for a time successful, shall be cut off. He hears and confirms the hearts of His suffering people (Psa 112:7), executes justice for the feeble, and represses the pride and violence of conceited, though frail, men (compare Psa 9:16).","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the...","type":"page"}