Psalms 10:13
11 He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
12 Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
14 But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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]?
- DARBY
- Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it].
- BLB
- Upon what does the wicked spurn God? He has said in his heart, “You will not call [me] to account.”
- ÅB
- Hvorfor skal den ugudelige forakte Gud
og si i hjertet sitt: «Du krever ikke til regnskap?» - OTB
- Hvorfor har den onde vist forakt for Gud?
Han har sagt til seg selv, “Du vil ikke holde meg til ansvar.” - B1930
- Hvorfor skal den ugudelige forakte Gud og si i sitt hjerte: Du hjemsøker ikke?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
Read in contextNumbers 11:20
but 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?’”
Read in contextPsalms 74:18
Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 4:8
Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
Read in context2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus 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 account.”
Read in contextPsalms 74:10
How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
Read in context2 Samuel 12:9–10
Why 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.
Read in contextGenesis 9:5
And 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:
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