Psalms 10:8
He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
7His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
Cross References
Judges 9:25So the men of Shechem set men in wayte for him in the toppes of the mountaines: who robbed all that passed that way by them: and it was tolde Abimelech.
1 Samuel 23:23See therefore and know all the secret places where he hideth himselfe, and come ye againe to me with the certaintie, and I will goe with you: and if he be in the lande, I will searche him out throughout all the thousands of Iudah.
Job 24:14The murtherer riseth earely and killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.
Psalms 94:6They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murder the fatherlesse.
Proverbs 6:12The vnthriftie man and the wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.
Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thine heart are but only for thy couetousnesse, and for to sheade innocent blood, and for oppression, and for destruction, euen to doe this.
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 →