John Trapp on Psalms 73:11

Verſ. 11. And they ſay, how doth God know?] Even the godly through infirmity, are drawn ſometimes to doubt of Gods providence and government, becauſe of the inequality of events in human affairs. It had like to have coſt the Pſalmiſt here a fall, and made him almoſt caſt of all care off Religion. Baſil alſo was in ſome doubt of the divine providence; under the heat of the Arian perſecution. For hath the Lord utterly forſaken his Churches, ſaith he? is it now the laſt hour? In the next age Salvian (for the ſatisfaction of ſome good people) was forced to write eight books, De gubernatione Dei, & de juſta praeſenti que ejus Judicio, of Gods governing the World, and the righteouſneſs of his proceedings. Upon a like occaſion Auſtin wrote thoſe twenty two moſt excellent and elaborate books, De civitate Dei.