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The Perils of the Pilgrim

Psalms 10:13

In 11 translations

BSB
Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
KJV
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
WEB
Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account”?
ASV
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it?
LSV
Why has the wicked despised God? He has said in his heart, “It is not required.”
YLT
Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'
DBY
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it].Elohim
DRC9:34
Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God? for he hath said in his heart: He will not require it.
GNV
Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard.
JPS
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart: 'Thou wilt not require'?
LXXE9:34
Wherefore has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require it.

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Original-language editions

WLC
עַל־מֶ֤ה ׀ נִאֵ֖ץ רָשָׁ֥ע ׀ אֱלֹהִ֑ים אָמַ֥ר בְּ֝לִבּ֗וֹ לֹ֣א תִּדְרֹֽשׁ׃
LXX-Br9:34
Ἕνεκεν τίνος παρώξυνεν ὁ ἀσεβὴς τὸν Θεόν; εἶπε γὰρ ἐν καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ, οὐ ζητήσει.

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  • Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
  • 2 Samuel 12:9–10Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now,…
  • Numbers 11:20but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
  • Psalms 74:18Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
  • 2 Chronicles 24:22Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to…
  • Psalms 74:10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
  • Genesis 42:22And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”
  • Genesis 9:5And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
  • Luke 11:50–51As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar…

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  • 9:34 in some Bibles
  • 10:13 in most Bibles

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