John Trapp on Psalms 10:1

PSAL. X.

VErſ. 1. Why ſtandeſt then afar off, O Lord?] As if thou-hadſt forgotten what thou hadſt promiſed thy people in the former Pſalm; which the Greek and Latine 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 Pſal. 148.

Why hideſt thou thy ſelf in time of trouble?) So God ſeemeth to do, when he helpeth not preſently; neither doth any thing more trouble the Saints in affliction, than the want of Gods gracious preſence. This maketh them thus to expoſtulate and lament after the Lord; not quarrel as thoſe Hypocrites did, Iſa. 58.3. or revile, as Caligula did his Jupiter, taking up that Verſe in Homer, [non-Latin text not transcribed], or with him (little better) in the holy Hiſtory, who ſaid, Behold this evil is of the Lord, and what ſhould I wait for the Lord any longer? 2 King. 6.33. The good Soul knows that God waiteth to be gracious; and as he ſeldom cometh at our time, ſo at his own (which is ever the beſt) time, he never faileth.