Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 10:7

7. His mouth is full of cursing , and deceit and fraud : under his tongue is mischief and vanity .

Either 1. Of Oaths and Blasphemies against God. Or 2. Of reviling and execration of other men, especially those that are good; or those that stand in his way and hinder his wicked designs. Or rather 3. Of Oaths and Imprecations against himself, of which this word is used Numb. 5. 21. Deut. 29. 12, 21. Neh. 10. 29. By which he indeavours to gain Credit, and to make his Neighbours secure, and so to make way for the deceit and fraud which here follows. For this wretched Man is represented both here, and in the succeeding Verses, as one that doth not act with open Violence and Hostility, but with subtil and secret Artifices, using all cunning Insinuations, and Flatteries, and Lies, and among others, Oaths, of which an atheistical Politician said, that Men were to be deceived with oaths, and Children with Rattles or Toyes.

Two words signifying the same thing, to note the greatness and frequency of his Deceits. Or one word may signify the deceit lurking in his heart, and the other the manifestation of it in external Frauds and Stratagems.

Either 1. In his Heart, which is under the Tongue. Or rather 2. Under his fair and plausible Speeches, the Mischief here following is hid and covered. Withal he seems to allude to Serpents whose poison lies hidden under their Tongue, or within their Teeth.

Or rather iniquity, as this word is oft rendered, or injury, the vexation or oppression of other men, which he covers with these fair pretences.

Marginal references: Rom. 3. 1[illegible: 1+ letters].; Heb. [illegible: 1 word].; Or, [illegible: 1 word].