Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks 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 none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God; 12 They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:

Cross References

Psalm 14:2-4

Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.

Psalm 53:2

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did 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 Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But 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

For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah:

Isaiah 9:13

Yet the people have not turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts.

Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs thereof 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 that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to them that 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 unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!

Isaiah 55:6

Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:

Isaiah 65:1

I am inquired of by them that asked not for me ; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Hosea 7:10

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they have not returned unto Jehovah their God, nor sought him, for all this.

Matthew 13:13-14

Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Matthew 13:19

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the evil one , and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by the way side.

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 1:28

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Romans 8:7

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

Titus 3:3

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Job 21:15-16

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