Charles Ellicott Commentary 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." — Psalms 10:2 (ASV)

The wicked. —Better, in the pride of the wicked, the sufferer burns. (So Septuagint, Aquila, Symmachus, and Vulgate) This should not be understood as the indignation felt by the sufferers, but literally as the afflictions they endure. The Authorized Version's rendering of the next clause makes the wicked the subject of the verb; but it preserves the parallelism better, and is more consistent with the rest of the psalm (Psalms 10:8–10), to understand this clause as referring to the “humble,” with the subject changing from singular to plural when supplied: “they (the sufferers) are taken (the verb is in the present tense) in the plot which they (the wicked) have devised.”