John Gill Commentary Psalms 10:5

"His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them." — Psalms 10:5 (ASV)

His ways are always grievous
To God and to his people; or, "his ways cause terror" ^F1 , so Aben Ezra; make men fear; as antichrist has made the whole world tremble at him, (Revelation 13:4) ; or, "his ways are defiled", as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin render it; for to him is nothing pure, his mind and conscience being defiled, (Titus 1:15) ; or, "his ways always remain" ^F2 ; they are always the same, there is no change in them for the better: or they "prosper" ^F3 as Jarchi interprets it; and this is sometimes stumbling to the saints, (Jeremiah 12:1) (Psalms 73:2Psalms 73:3) ;

thy judgments [are] far above, out of his sight :
meaning either the laws, statutes, and commandments of God, which are not taken notice of by him; but his own decrees or orders are set in the room of them; or the examples of punishment inflicted on wicked men, as on the old world, on Sodom and Gomorrah, the Egyptians, and other nations; these are not regarded, when they should be a terror to him;

[as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them ;
who are the poor saints, and are looked upon by antichrist as feeble creatures, and all their efforts against him and his kingdom are treated with contempt: he blows upon them, and suggests that he can cause them to fall with the breath of his mouth, or strike them down with a straw or a feather; see (Psalms 12:6) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F1: (wlyxy) "terrent", Cocceius.
• F2: "Permanent sive perdurant", Lutherus, Gejerus.
• F3: "Prosperantur", Musculus, Calvin, Ainsworth, Piscator.