Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 10:14

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 .

Or, but thou hast seen it, and therefore they are horribly mistaken, as they will find to their cost.

Or, surely, as this particle is oft used, as Iob 8. 6. Psal. 73. 18.

Not as an idle Spectator, but with an eye of observation and vindication, as it follows.

(i. e.) All the injurious and spiteful, or malicious carriages of wicked men towards those who are more righteous than they.

Heb. to give (i. e. to restore or repay, the simple verb for the compound; which is usual in the Hebrew tongue) it (to wit, the mischief which they have done to others) with thy hand, (i. e.) by thy own immediate and extraordinary providence, because the oppressed were destitute of all other succours. Or, to put (giving being oft used for putting, as hath been observed before) it in or into thy hand, that thou mayest have it always in thine Eye, and under thy care and consideration, as the like phrase is evidently used Isa. 49. 16. Therefore thou dost not, and canst not forget it, but wilst certainly require it.

Or, his matters or cause, (i. e.) The care of his person and righteous cause. Heb. he leaveth. Which word is used for committing to the trust of another, Gen. 39. 6. Iob 39. 14. Isa. 10. 3:

(i. e.) Of such poor oppressed ones as have no friend nor helper, one kind of them being put for all the rest.

Marginal references: Heb. leaveth.