Psalm 10 Bible study: Why do you stand far off?

Three times the psalm lets the wicked speak, and each time it says where he says it: "He says in his heart" (10:6, 10:11), and "say in his heart" (10:13). First, "I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble" (10:6). Then, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it" (10:11). Then, "God won’t call me into account" (10:13). Here is what almost everyone misses: after the second and the third, the psalmist speaks to God with the wicked's own verbs. The wicked said "God has forgotten" (10:11); the psalmist prays, "Don’t forget the helpless" (10:12), with the same Hebrew verb, shakhach (tap forget). The wicked said "He will never see it" (10:11); the psalmist says, "But you do see trouble and grief" (10:14), with the same verb, ra'ah (tap see). The wicked said "God won’t call me into account" (10:13); the psalmist asks, "seek out his wickedness until you find none" (10:15). In Hebrew call into account and seek out are one verb, darash (tap seek).

Psalms 10:14→leads toMatthew 18:10-14

The wicked hunts the helpless and says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it" (Psalm 10:11). The psalm answers him to God: "But you do see trouble and grief … You help the victim and the fatherless" (Psalm 10:14). Jesus said, "See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 18:10), and "Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish" (Matthew 18:14). Jesus doesn't cite Psalm 10, so setting them together is a reading. It rests on a shared subject, whether God overlooks the small and weak, and not only on the words see and face that both passages use (in the psalm the wicked says God won't see; in Matthew it is the little ones' angels who see the Father's face). One reading hears Jesus say of his Father what the psalm confesses in Psalm 10:14: the weak are not overlooked. Another keeps Jesus's words to their own setting, a little child set among the disciples (Matthew 18:2) and "these little ones who believe in me" (Matthew 18:6), and doesn't point them to this psalm.

דָּרַשׁdarashsay da-RASH

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "resort to, seek", and among its uses, "seek, with idea of demanding, require". Strong's: "to seek or ask". The psalm has it three times, and the WEB gives it three ways. In 10:4 the wicked "has no room in his thoughts for God" (10:4): the Hebrew there has darash with not before it. He says in his heart, "God won’t call me into account" (10:13): call into account is darash. And the psalmist asks the LORD, "seek out his wickedness until you find none" (10:15). Psalm 119 has it of the wicked too: "Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes" (Psalm 119:155). The chapter on Psalm 9 follows the verb back to Genesis 9:5.