In the lurking places of the villages; not within the villages, which is not a fit place for lurking; but about them, in the ways bordering upon them, or leading to them, as robbers use to do. In the secret places, that he may avoid the shame and punishment of men; which is the only thing that he fears. Are privily set, Heb. are hid. The sense is either,
1. He winketh as men do when they shoot their arrows at a mark. Or rather,
2. He watcheth and looketh out of his lurking-place, to spy what passengers come that way. He alludes still to the practices of robbers.