Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 10:11
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it].
11. He saith in his heart, God ( El) hath forgotten:
He hath hidden his face; he hath not seen nor ever will.
Experience, he thinks, confirms the assumption from which he started ( Psa 10:4), that God will not trouble Himself to interfere: the exact opposite of the faith of the saints (Psa 9:12; Psa 9:18). The last clause means literally, He hath not seen for ever: i.e. hath not seen hitherto nor will hereafter.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten – That is, this is his practical, habitual feeling. He acts as if God had forgotten, or as if God takes no knowledge of what is occurring in the earth. Compare Psa 10:6.
He hideth his face – God has hidden his face; that is, he does not look on what is occurring.
He will never see it – That is, he will never see what is done. It cannot be supposed that any man would deliberately say either that the memory of God has failed, or that he will not see what is done upon the earth, but the meaning is, that this is the practical feeling of the wicked man; he acts as if this were so. He is no more restrained in his conduct than he would be if this were his deliberate conviction, or than if he had settled it in his mind that God is regardless of human actions. It is hardly necessary to say that this is a correct description of the conduct of wicked men. If they deliberately believed that God was regardless of human conduct, if they were certain that he would not behold what is done, their conduct would not be different from what it is now. They do not act as if his eye were upon them; they are not restrained by any sense of his presence.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 11. God hath forgotten] He hath cast off this people, and he will never more re-establish them. So Sanballat thought.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
God hath forgotten, to wit, the poor, Psa 10:10; or the humble, which we are taught to supply out of Psa 10:12, where he saith, forget not the humble. He forgets and neglects all their oppressions and prayers, and doth not avenge their cause, as he hath said he would do; nor execute judgments upon their oppressors, as he hath sometimes done or been thought to do.
He hideth his face, lest he should see. He takes no notice of their sufferings, lest he should be engaged to help them. He will not encumber himself with the care of things done upon earth, but leaves it wholly to men to manage their affairs as they think fit.
He will never see it, to wit, the oppression of the poor, or the design of oppressors against them, which is the chief subject of the whole Psalm, and is particularly expressed Psa 10:10.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
11. As before, such conductimplies disbelief or disregard of God’s government.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten,…. Meaning either his own sins, because they are not immediately punished; wherefore he hopes to go on for ever with impunity, but will be mistaken, for God will remember the iniquities of Babylon, and render to her double, Re 18:5; see Am 7:17; or else the poor ones he oppresses; for though they seem for a while to be forgotten by God, they are not, a book of remembrance is written for them;
he hideth his face; that is, from his poor saints, which is true oftentimes; but then the use the wicked one makes of it is bad, namely, to insult them on that account, and to imagine that it is grateful to God, and doing him good service, to afflict and persecute them; and that God will never regard them, nor return to them more, as follows;
he will never see [it]; or them; he will never more look upon the poor, he will no more regard them, and take notice of them and their afflictions; than which nothing is more false; for though he hides his face for a moment, yet with everlasting kindness will he gather them to himself; and he beholds all their oppressions and afflictions, and not as a bare spectator; he sympathizes with them, and delivers them out of them. Or “he will never” the wickedness committed by the wicked; which is a very foolish thought, since what is done in the dark, and in the most secret manner, is seen by God, the darkness and the light are alike to him; he is all-seeing and ever-seeing, and everywhere seeing; and he it is that has made the eye, and shall not he see? Ps 94:5; the sense of the whole in general is, that God takes no notice of good men or bad men, nor of what is done by either of them; he does not concern himself with the affairs of this world, which is an impious denial of divine Providence; see Eze 9:9.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
11. He hath said in his heart. The Psalmist again points out the source from which the presumption of the ungodly proceeds. Because God seems to take no notice of their wicked practices, they flatter themselves with the hope of escaping unpunished. As, however, they do not openly utter with their mouth the detestable blasphemy, that God hath forgotten their conduct, and hath shut his eyes that he may never see it, but hide their thoughts in the deep recesses of their own hearts, as Isaiah declares, (Isa 29:15) the Psalmist uses the same form of expression which he used before, and which he repeats a little after the third time, namely, that the ungodly say to themselves, in their hearts, that God takes no concern whatever in the affairs of men. And it is to be observed, that the ungodly, when all things happen to them according to their wishes, form such a judgment of their prosperity as to persuade themselves that God is in a manner bound or obliged to them. (224) Whence it comes to pass, that they live in a state of constant security, (225) because they do not reflect, that after God has long exercised patience towards them, they will undergo a solemn reckoning, and that their condemnation will be the more terrible, the greater the long-suffering of God.
(224) “ Or il faut noter que les meschans voyans que tout leur vient ‘X souchair sont tellement estat de leur prosperite, qu’ils se sont a croire que Dieu est aucunement obligd a eux.” — Fr.
(225) “ Qu’ils vivent sans crainte ne souci de l’advenir.” — Fr. “That they live without any fear or concern about the future.”
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(11) Hideth.Better, hath hidden.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
11. God hath forgotten This is the common error of the wicked. Because judgment is delayed they are emboldened to say, “God hideth his face,” does not see it, takes no legal notice of crime. See Psa 10:13; Psa 73:11; Eze 8:12.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 10:11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it].
Ver. 11. He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten ] That is, he knoweth it not, regardeth it not. To learn is nothing else but to remember, said Socrates; and what a man hath utterly forgotten it is all one as if he had never known it; 2Pe 1:9 , he “hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins,” that is, he was never purged. See Psa 10:4 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
forgotten. Compare Psa 10:12, and Psa 9:12, Psa 9:17, Psa 9:18.
never see it. Compare Psa 10:14.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
said: Psa 10:6, Mar 2:6, Luk 7:39
God: Psa 64:5, Psa 73:11, Psa 94:7, Job 22:13, Job 22:14, Ecc 8:11, Eze 8:12, Eze 9:9
Reciprocal: Gen 3:4 – Ye Deu 29:19 – that he bless 1Ki 22:13 – Behold now 2Ch 18:12 – Behold Job 11:11 – he seeth Job 21:14 – they say Job 24:15 – No eye Psa 13:4 – Lest Psa 44:24 – Wherefore Psa 53:1 – said Psa 59:7 – who Psa 73:8 – speak wickedly Psa 74:23 – Forget Psa 86:14 – and have Psa 90:8 – Thou Psa 139:11 – Surely Pro 19:28 – scorneth Isa 5:18 – draw Isa 29:15 – seek Isa 47:10 – thou hast said Jer 23:24 – hide Eze 7:22 – face Amo 8:7 – I will Amo 9:10 – The evil Zep 1:12 – The Lord Mal 2:17 – Where Mal 3:13 – Your Rom 2:4 – despisest 1Th 5:3 – Peace
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Psa 10:11. He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten Namely, the poor, (Psa 10:10,) or, the humble. He forgets or neglects their oppressions and prayers, and doth not avenge their cause, as he hath said he would do. He hideth his face Lest he should see. He takes no notice of their sufferings, lest he should be engaged to help them. He will not encumber himself with the care of things done upon the earth, but leaves it wholly to men to manage their affairs as they think fit. He will never see it Namely, the oppression of the poor, or the design of oppressors against them.