Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God.

New American Standard Bible

There is none who understands,
There is none who seeks for God;

King James Version

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Holman Bible

There is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.

International Standard Version

No one understands. No one searches for God.

American Standard Version

There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

Amplified


There is none who understands,
There is none who seeks for God.

An Understandable Version

No one understands [everything]. No one looks to God [all the time].

Anderson New Testament

there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;

Bible in Basic English

Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

Common New Testament

there is no one who understands, no one who seeks for God.

Daniel Mace New Testament

there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Darby Translation

there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.

Godbey New Testament

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks out God;

Goodspeed New Testament

No one understands, no one searches for God.

John Wesley New Testament

There is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.

Julia Smith Translation

There is none understanding, there is none seeking God.

King James 2000

There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[there] is no one who understands; [there] is no one who seeks God.

Modern King James verseion

there is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God."

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God,

Moffatt New Testament

no one understands, no one seeks for God.

Montgomery New Testament

There is none that understands, none that seeks for God!

NET Bible

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

New Heart English Bible

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

Noyes New Testament

there is none that hath understanding, there is none that diligently seeketh God;

Sawyer New Testament

there is none that understands, there is none that seeks God;

The Emphasized Bible

There is none that discerneth, There is none that seeketh out God:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Not one who understands, not one who is searching for God!

Webster

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh God.

Weymouth New Testament

There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.

Williams New Testament

No one understands, no one is searching for God;

World English Bible

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

Worrell New Testament

there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;

Worsley New Testament

there is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.

Youngs Literal Translation

There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
There is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

οὐ 
Ou 
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032
Usage: 1032

συνίημι 
suniemi 
Usage: 14

there is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

ἐκζητέω 
Ekzeteo 
Usage: 5

Context Readings

Crowds By The Sea

10 as it is written, There is no righteous man, not even one. 11 There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God. 12 All turned away. Together they became useless. There is not a man who does goodness; there is not as much as one.

Cross References

Psalm 14:2-4

LORD looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

Psalm 53:2

God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any who understood, who seek after God.

Psalm 94:8

Consider, ye brutish among the people, and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:29-30

because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD.

Isaiah 9:13

Yet the people have not turned to him who smote them, nor have they sought LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek LORD!

Isaiah 55:6

Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.

Isaiah 65:1

I was {manifested (LXX/NT)} by those who did not ask {for me (LXX/NT)}. I am found by those who did not seek me. I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.

Hosea 7:10

And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Yet they have not returned to LORD their God, nor sought him for all this.

Matthew 13:13-14

Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, nor do they understand.

Matthew 13:19

Of every man who hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understands it, evil comes, and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is that which was sown by the wayside.

Romans 1:22

Professing to be wise, they became foolish,

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

Romans 8:7

Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.

Titus 3:3

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the TRUE God, and the eternal life.

Job 21:15-16

What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

Psalm 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon God?

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