John Trapp on Psalms 10:18

Verſ. 18. To judge the fatherleſſe, &c.] the Vulgar hath it, to judge for the fatherleſs, and for the oppreſſed. It is one thing (ſaith Auſtin) to judge the fatherleſs, and another thing to judge for him; this later is, to paſs ſentence on his ſide; which God the righteous Judge will be ſure to do without writhing or warping; for hee hath all that is required of a Judge originally, and eminently, viz. Wiſdome, Juſtice, Courage, Conſtancy, and Power.

That the man of the earth may no more oppreſſe] or terrifie, daunt with terrour, as Phil. 1.28. See the Note there. Why ſhould one man be terrible to another, ſith wee are all mortales è terra, worms of the earth, clods of clay, and ſhall ſhortly return to the duſt whence wee were taken? unde ſuperbit homo? I even I am hee that comforteth you; who art thou that thou ſhouldeſt be afraid of a man that ſhall die, and of the Son of man that ſhall bee made as graſſe? And forgetteſt the Lord thy Maker—and haſt feared continually every day, becauſe of the fury of the Oppreſſor, as if hee were ready to deſtroy? and where is the fury of the Oppreſſor? Iſa. 51.12, 13. Some obſerve that the cloſe of this Pſalm is much like that of the former. How they have been taken (by the Greek Fathers eſpecially) for one entire Pſalm, See the Note on Verſ. 1.