John Trapp on Psalms 11:3

Verſ. 3. If the foundations be deſtroyed] If all things be turned topſie turvie in the State, and no regard had to right or wrong, Sed vi geritur res, ut in regno Cyclopico; If Saul, not withſtanding mine alliance to him, and innocency toward him, his many fair promiſes to me, and thoſe hazards and hardſhips I have ſuffered for his ſake, will needs go on to hunt me up and down, as a Partridge in the mountains, and to ſeek mine utter undoing, what can I do to help it? how can it bee but the moſt righteous muſt have his ſhare of ſufferings? See Pſal. 82.5.

VVhat can the righteous do?] More than glorifie God, by ſuffering his Will, and patiently wait for better times, comforting himſelf (as in the next verſe) in this confidence, that God is in Heaven, &c. Some render it, What hath the righteous done? The wicked will ſay, that he hath undone all, and that David with his complices are the cauſes of all the publick calamities and confuſions. So the Primitive Perſecutors charged the Chriſtians, and Papiſts do ſtill the Proteſtants,Chriſtianos ad leones. Tertul. to be the troublers of the State, the Seeds-men of ſedition, the diſturbers of the Churches peace, &c. when as indeed themſelves are flagella Reip. flabella ſeditionis, the only traitors and troublers of Iſrael; with Athaliah they cry out Treaſon, Treaſon, when themſelves are the greateſt Traitors and Incendiaries of Chriſtendom. We may confidently ſay with the Pſalmiſt, The foundations are deſtroyed, but what hath the righteous done? Some render the words thus, But thoſe purpoſes or counſels (of Saul and his flatterers, verſ. 2.) ſhall be deſtroyed. (Saul ſhall be fruſtrated of his hope, therefore I will not flee into the mountains) But what hath the righteous done? That is, I have done nothing unrighteouſly againſt Saul, therefore I will not fly, &c.