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Ps 10:10 King James He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
croucheth--as a lion gathers himself into as small compass as possible to make the greater spring.

fall by his strong ones--The figure of the lion is dropped, and this phrase means the accomplices of the chief or leading wicked man.
 
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8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?