Psalms 10:8
He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity,
Cross References
Judges 9:25And the masters of Shechem set for him ambushes on the top of the hills, and rob every one who passeth over by them in the way, and it is declared to Abimelech.
1 Samuel 23:23And see and know of all the hiding-places where he hideth himself, and ye have turned back unto me prepared, and I have gone with you, and it hath been, if he is in the land, that I have searched him out through all the thousands of Judah.'
Job 24:14At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.
Psalms 94:6Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.
Proverbs 6:12A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,
Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.
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 →