John Trapp on Psalms 37:7

Verſ. 7. Reſt in the Lord] Heb. Be ſilent to the Lord; Digito compeſce labellum, lay thine hand upon thy mouth when chafing ripe, when ready to let fly at thoſe that wrong thee. The more ſilent the Patient is, the more ſhrill the Wrong will be, as Numb. 12.2. while Moſes is dumb, God ſpeaks; deaf, God hears and ſtirs; the leſs he ſaid and did, the more God ſtruck in for him; and the leſs any man ſtriveth for himſelf, the more is God his Champion; ſo he do it to the Lord, that is, in obedience to him, and not for a name, as ſome Heathens did.

And wait patiently for him] Or, put thy ſelf to pain for him; that is, though it go againſt the hair with thee, and thou finde it hard to ſuffer evil, and to wait patiently for better, yet do it for his ſake, and therein thou ſhalt do thy ſelf no diſſervice at all.

Who bringeth wicked devices to paſs] And pleaſeth himſelf in them, becauſe for preſent he proſpereth; as Dionyſius did in his Sacriledge, becauſe no harm to him followed upon it. Saeculi laetitia, eſt impunita nequitia, ſaith Auſtin.