Parallel Verses
Amplified
Why has the wicked spurned and shown disrespect to God?
He has said to himself, “You will not require me to account.”
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 ?
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 Your hand [in judgment];
Do not forget the suffering.
Why has the wicked spurned and shown disrespect to God?
He has said to himself, “You will not require me to account.”
You have seen it, for You have noted mischief and vexation (irritation) to take it into Your hand.
The unfortunate commits himself to You;
You are the helper of the fatherless.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5
For your lifeblood I will most certainly require an accounting; from every animal [that kills a person] I will require it. And from man, from every man’s brother [that is, anyone who murders] I will require the life of man.
Genesis 42:22
Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now the accounting for his blood is required [of us for we are guilty of his death].”
Numbers 11:20
but a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and is disgusting to you—because you have rejected and despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept [in self-pity] before Him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”
2 Samuel 12:9-10
Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife. You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but he murdered his son. And when Zechariah was dying, he said, “May the Lord see this and require an accounting!”
Psalm 74:10
O God, how long will the adversary scoff?
Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?
Psalm 74:18
Remember this, O Lord, the enemy has scoffed,
And a foolish and impious people has spurned Your name.
Luke 10:16
Luke 11:50-51
1 Thessalonians 4:8
So whoever rejects and disregards this is not [merely] rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you [to dwell in you and empower you to overcome temptation].