--- title: "Psalms 10 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Psalms 10 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 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" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/psalms/10" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/10)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/10)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/10) Audio 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 above out of his sight: *as for* all his enemies, he puffeth at them. 6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for *I shall* never *be* in adversity.* 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue *is* mischief and vanity.** 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.* 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.* 10 He croucheth, *and* humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.** 11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see *it*. 12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.* 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require *it*. 14 Thou hast seen *it;* for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite *it* with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.* 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil *man:* seek out his wickedness *till* thou find none. 16 The LORD *is* King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. 17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:* 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.* [Psalms 9](/study/psalms/9) [Psalms 11](/study/psalms/11) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Psa 10:1](/kjv/psa/10/1) Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble? Ver. 1. **Why standest thou afar off, O Lord?** ] As if thou hadst forgotten what thou hadst promised thy people in the formed psalm; which the Greek and Latin versions make to be one and the same with this, as having no title, and tending almost to the same purpose. Hence the difference in numbers, which holdeth almost to the end of the psalter, viz. to [Psalms 148:1-14](/kjv/psalms/148/1-14) . **** **Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?** ] So God seemeth to do when he helpeth not presently; neither doth anything more trouble the saints in affliction than the want of God’s gracious presence. This maketh them thus to expostulate and lament after the Lord; not quarrel, as those hypocrites did, [Isaiah 58:3](/kjv/isaiah/58/3) , or revile, as Caligula did his Jupiter, taking up that verse in Homer, Zευ πατερ ουτις σειο Yεων ολοωτερος αλλος , or with him (little better) in the holy history, who said, "Behold, this evil is of the Lord; what should I wait for the Lord any lenger?" [2 Kings 6:33](/kjv/2-kings/6/33) . 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