Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'
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 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?"
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
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 Thy hand! Forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.' 14 Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5
'And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man;
Genesis 42:22
And Reuben answereth them, saying, 'Spake I not unto you, saying, Sin not against the lad? and ye hearkened not; and his blood also, lo, it is required.'
Numbers 11:20
unto a month of days, till that it come out from your nostrils, and it hath become to you an abomination; because that ye have loathed Jehovah, who is in your midst, and weep before Him, saying, Why is this? -- we have come out of Egypt!'
2 Samuel 12:9-10
'Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do the evil thing in His eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten by the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to thee for a wife, and him thou hast slain by the sword of the Bene-Ammon.
2 Chronicles 24:22
and Joash the king hath not remembered the kindness that Jehoiada his father did with him, and slayeth his son, and in his death he said, 'Jehovah doth see, and require.'
Psalm 74:10
Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?
Psalm 74:18
Remember this -- an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.
Luke 10:16
'He who is hearing you, doth hear me; and he who is putting you away, doth put me away; and he who is putting me away, doth put away Him who sent me.'
Luke 11:50-51
that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;
1 Thessalonians 4:8
he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.