Psalms Chapter 10 verse 2 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 10:2

In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
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BBE Psalms 10:2

The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
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DARBY Psalms 10:2

The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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KJV Psalms 10:2

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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WBT Psalms 10:2

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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WEB Psalms 10:2

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak; They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
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YLT Psalms 10:2

Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.
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Psalms 10 : 2 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. Dr. Kay translates, "Through the pride of the wicked man the poor is set on fire;" and our Revisers, "In the pride of the wicked, the poor is hotly pursued;" and so (nearly) the LXX., the Vulgate, Aquila, Symmachus, Kohler, Hengstenberg, and others. The Authorized Version paraphrases rather than translates; but it does not misrepresent the general sense, which is a complaint that the poor are persecuted by the wicked. Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined (comp. Psalm 35:8, "Let his net that he hath hid catch himself;" and Psalm 141:10, "Let the wicked fall into their own nets;" see also Psalm 7:15, 16; Psalm 9:15; Proverbs 5:22; Proverbs 26:27: Ecclesiastes 10:8). Some, however, translate, "They (i.e. the poor) are ensnared in the devices which they (i.e. the wicked) have imagined;" and this is certainly a possible rendering. Hengstenberg regards it as preferable to the other "on account of the parallelism and connection."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) The wicked.--Better, in the pride of the wicked, the sufferer burns. (So LXX., Aquila, Symmachus, and Vulg.) Not to be taken of indignation felt by the sufferers, but literally of the afflictions they endure. The Authorised Version rendering of the next clause takes the wicked as the subject of the verb; but it preserves the parallelism better, and is more in accordance with the rest of the psalm (Psalm 10:8-10), to understand it of the "humble," the singular changing to the plural in the subject when supplied: "they (the sufferers) are taken (the verb is in the present) in the plot which they (the wicked) have devised."