Psalms 73:11

In 11 translations

BSB

The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

KJV

And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

WEB

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

ASV

And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

LSV

And they have said, “How has God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?”

YLT

And they have said, 'How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

DBY

And they say, How can God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?El

DRC72:11

And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

GNV

And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High?

JPS

And they say: 'How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

LXXE72:11

And they said, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?Gr. if there is.

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WLC

וְֽאָמְר֗וּ אֵיכָ֥ה יָדַֽע־אֵ֑ל וְיֵ֖שׁ דֵּעָ֣ה בְעֶלְיֽוֹן׃

LXX-Br72:11

Καὶ εἶπαν, πῶς ἔγνω ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ εἰ ἔστι γνῶσις ἐν τῷ ὑψίστῳ;

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Cross-references most cited first

• Hosea 7:2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.
• Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
• Psalms 94:7They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
• Job 22:13–14Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness? Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
• Psalms 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
• Psalms 73:9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
• Ezekiel 8:12“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the…
• Psalms 139:1–6O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. Even before a word is on my…
• Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

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