Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 10:8

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.

Not within the Villages, which is not a fit place for lurking, but about them, in the ways bordering upon them or leading to them, as Robbers use to do.

That he may avoid the shame and punishment of Men; which is the onely thing that he fears.

Heb. Are hid. The sence is either 1. He winketh as men do when they shoot their Arrows at a mark. Or rather 2. He watcheth and looketh out of his lurking-place, to spy what passengers come that way. He alludes still to the practices of Robbers.

Marginal references: Heb. 3. [illegible: 1 word].; Heb. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word].