Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require [it]?
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."?
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 King James verseion
Why do the wicked condemn God? He has said in his heart, You will not judge.
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 LORD, O God, lift up thy hand. Do not forget the poor. 13 Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require [it]? 14 Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits [himself] to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
Genesis 42:22
And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Sin not against the child, and ye would not hear? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.
Numbers 11:20
but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you, because ye have rejected LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?
2 Samuel 12:9-10
Why have thou despised the word of LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? Thou have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be thy wife, and have slain him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus 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, LORD look upon it, and require it.
Psalm 74:10
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever?
Psalm 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that a foolish people has blasphemed thy name.
Luke 10:16
He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.
Luke 11:50-51
so that the blood of all the prophets that was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.