Psalms 10:8
He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privately set against the poor.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Cross References
Judges 9:25And the men of Shechem set hidden attackers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that 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 all of you again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
Job 24:14The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Psalms 94:6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Proverbs 6:12A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.
Jeremiah 22:17But yours eyes and yours heart are not but for your covetousness, and in order to shed 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 →