Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

For what did the unjust one despise God, saying in his heart, Thou wilt not search?

New American Standard Bible

Why has the wicked spurned God?
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

Why has the wicked person despised God?
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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

דּרשׁ 
Darash 
Usage: 164

References

Hastings

Context Readings

A Prayer For God To Throw Down The Wicked

12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thine hand: thou wilt not forget the poor. 13 For what did the unjust one despise God, saying in his heart, Thou wilt not search? 14 Thou sawest; for thou wilt look upon trouble and anger, to give with thine hand: the poor will be left to thee; thou wert the helper of the orphan.

Cross References

Genesis 9:5

And surely, your blood of your lives I will search out, from the hand of every living thing I will search it out, and from the hand of man; from the hand of a man's brother I will search out the life of man.

Genesis 42:22

And Reuben will answer them, saying, Spake I not to you, saying, Ye shall not sin against the child; and ye heard not? and also behold his blood was required.

Numbers 11:20

Even to a month of days, till when it shall come out from your nostrils, and it shall be to you for loathsomeness, because that ye rejected Jehovah who is in the midst of you, and ye shall weep before him, saying, Wherefore came we out of Egypt?

2 Samuel 12:9-10

Wherefore didst thou despise the word of Jehovah to do evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou didst strike with the sword, and his wife thou tookest to thee for a wife, and thou didst kill him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

2 Chronicles 24:22

And Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father did with him, and he will kill his son. And in his death he said, Jehovah will see and seek out

Psalm 74:10

How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? Shall the enemy despise thy name forever?

Psalm 74:18

Remember this, the enemy reproached Jehovah, and the foolish people despised thy name.

Luke 10:16

He hearing you hears me and he rejecting you rejects me; and he rejecting me rejects him having sent me.

Luke 11:50-51

That the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world be required of this generation;

1 Thessalonians 4:8

For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us.

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