Psalm 10 lays out the scenario of the arrogant and evil doer prospering while the helpless, the fatherless, and poor are taken advantage of by the wicked.

It’s obviously coming from the perspective of the poor and needy. As difficult as it is, he is praying to the Lord. But the wicked say there is no God. The fatherless wonders where God is in all of this.

He says at one point: Psalm 10:10–11 The helpless are crushed, sink down,
and fall by his might.
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,
he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

In other words, as the psalm began he wants to know why the Lord hides himself in times of trouble.

It can seem to us that God is high above in the heavens and cares not about the troubles of our lives. The problem with that thought is that God simply cannot be that way. He cannot go on vacation or go to some distant galaxy to remove himself from his creation. If he is not sustaining it every second then this world will cease to exist.

The needy man finally comes to his senses and acknowledges this. Psalm 10:14 But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation,
that you may take it into your hands;
to you the helpless commits himself;
you have been the helper of the fatherless.

Like the fatherless, we live in the desert in which we must trust and depend on the Lord everyday. We live here and not in the heavenly city that we might learn to trust the Lord. Life is a test. We have opportunities all day to believe or not.

Some of those troubles will not come to an end until the end. We must trust that the Lord will make everything right in the end. But for now we must trust the Lord to do this while we wait: Psalm 10:17  O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear.