Psalms 10:8

“eyes . . . privily--He watches with half-closed eyes, appearing not to see.”

“He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages - As robbers do, who hide themselves in the vicinity of villages, that they make a sudden descent upon them in the silence of the night, or that they may seize and rob the inhabitants as they go forth in the morning to attend their flocks to the pastures, or to labor in the fields. The word rendered “villages” means properly an enclosure, as a court before a building; and then a village or hamlet, farm-buildings, or farm hamlets, usually erected around an open space; and it is then used to denote the encampment of nomadic tribes, who usually pitch their tents in a circle so as to form an enclosure, Genesis 25:16; Isaiah 42:11. In the…”

“Sitteth - Not within the villages, but in the ways bordering upon them, or leading to them, as robbers use to do. Are set - Heb. Are hid. He watches and looks out of his lurking - place. He alludes still to the practices of robbers. Psalms 10:10”

“10:8 The wicked rely on outright violence (11:5; 37:32) and deception (Prov 12:6; 23:27-28).”

“sitteth: Sa1 22:18, Sa1 23:23; Kg2 21:16; Pro 1:11, Pro 1:12; Hab 3:14; Luk 8:1, Luk 10:1 his eyes: Psa 17:11; Pro 6:12, Pro 6:13; Jer 22:17 are privily set: Heb. hide themselves Psalms 10:9”

“The ungodly is described as a lier in wait; and one is reminded by it of such a state of anarchy, as that described in Hos 6:9 for instance. The picture fixes upon one simple feature in which the meanness of the ungodly culminates; and it is possible that it is intended to be taken as emblematical rather than literally. חצר (from חצר to surround, cf. Arab. hdr, hṣr, and especially hdr) is a farm premises walled in (Arab. hadar, hadâr, hadâra), then losing the special characteristic of being walled round it comes to mean generally a settled abode (with a house of clay or stone) in opposition to a roaming life in tents (cf. Lev 25:31; Gen 25:16). In such a place where men are more sure of…”