Psalms 10:9

“He lieth in wait secretly - Margin, in the secret places. See the note at Psalms 10:8. The object here is merely to illustrate the thought in the previous verse, by an allusion to a lion and a hunter. As a lion in his den - As a lion crouches down in his den, ready to spring upon his prey. That is, the lion is concealed, but is on the look out, and when his prey passes near his den, he suddenly springs upon it and secures it. So it is with the wicked man. He carefully lays his plans. He conceals his purposes. He is himself hidden, or his plans are all hidden. Suddenly he springs upon his victim, who is taken by surprise and has no power of defense or escape. The purpose here is not so much…”

“He lieth: Psa 17:12, Psa 59:3; Mic 7:2; Act 23:21 secretly: Heb. in the secret places, Lam 3:10; Amo 3:4; Nah 2:11, Nah 2:12; Zac 11:3 to catch: Jer 5:26; Eze 19:3-6; Hab 1:15; Joh 10:12 when: Psa 12:5, Psa 35:10, Psa 37:14, Psa 109:31; Job 5:15, Job 5:16; Pro 14:31, Pro 22:16, Pro 28:15; Isa 3:15, Isa 32:7; Eze 22:29; Amo 2:6, Amo 2:7, Amo 5:11, Amo 5:12; Hab 3:14 Psalms 10:10”

“The picture of the רשׁע, who is become as it were a beast of prey, is now worked out further. The lustrum of the lion is called סך Jer 25:38, or סכּה Job 38:40 : a thicket, from סכך, which means both to interweave and to plait over = to cover (without any connection with שׂך a thorn, Arab. shôk, a thistle). The figure of the lion is reversed in the second line, the עני himself being compared to the beast of prey and the רשׁע to a hunter who drives him into the pit-fall and when he has fallen in hastens to drag him away (משׁך, as in Psa 28:3; Job 24:22) in, or by means of ( Hos 11:4, Job 41:1), his net, in which he has become entangled. Psalms 10:10”