Psalms 10:8
He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Cross References
Judges 9:25And the men of Shechem set ambushes for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them, and it was told Abimelech.
1 Samuel 23:23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty. And I will go with you, and it shall come to pass, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among a
Job 24:14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief.
Psalms 94:6They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.
Proverbs 6:12A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 10:2-12
The Character of the Wicked; The Character of Persecutors. 1 Why standest thou afar off, O Lord ? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far… Read the whole commentary →