Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Why do the wicked condemn God? He has said in his heart, You will not judge.
New American Standard Bible
He has said to himself, “You will not require it.”
King James Version
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Holman Bible
He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”
International Standard Version
Why do the wicked despise God and say to themselves, "God will not seek justice."?
A Conservative Version
Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require [it]?
American Standard Version
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it ?
Amplified
Why has the wicked spurned and shown disrespect to God?
He has said to himself, “You will not require me to account.”
Bible in Basic English
Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
Darby Translation
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Julia Smith Translation
For what did the unjust one despise God, saying in his heart, Thou wilt not search?
King James 2000
Why does the wicked renounce God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why does the wicked treat God with contempt? He says in his heart, "You will not call [me] to account."
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God, while he doth say in his heart, "Tush, thou God careth not for it?"
NET Bible
Why does the wicked man reject God? He says to himself, "You will not hold me accountable."
New Heart English Bible
Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore hath the lawless one blasphemed God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it !
Webster
Why doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
World English Bible
Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"
Youngs Literal Translation
Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 10:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prayer For God To Throw Down The Wicked
12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up Your hand; forget not the humble. 13 Why do the wicked condemn God? He has said in his heart, You will not judge. 14 You have seen it; for You behold mischief and vexation, to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5
and surely the blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Genesis 42:22
And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you saying, Do not sin against the youth? And you would not hear. Therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
Numbers 11:20
Even a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is hateful to you, because you have despised Jehovah among you, and have wept before Him, saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?
2 Samuel 12:9-10
Why have you despised the Word of Jehovah, to do evil in His sight? You have stricken Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
2 Chronicles 24:22
And Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, Jehovah will seek you out.
Psalm 74:10
O God, how long shall the enemy speak evil? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?
Psalm 74:18
Remember this, the enemy has cursed, O Jehovah, and the foolish people have blasphemed Your name.
Luke 10:16
The one hearing you hears Me, and he who despises you despises Me; he who rejects you also rejects Him who sent Me.
Luke 11:50-51
so that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore he who despises does not despise man, but God, who also has given us His Holy Spirit.