Psalms 73:11
9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
10 So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.
The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
12 Behold, these are the wicked— always carefree as they increase their wealth.
13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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?
- DARBY
- And they say, How can God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?
- BLB
- And they say, “How can God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?”
- ÅB
- Og de sier: Hvordan skulle Gud vite noe? Er det vel kunnskap hos den Høyeste?
- OTB
- De sier: “Hvordan kan Gud vite?
Er det kunnskap hos Den Høyeste?” - B1930
- Og de sier: Hvorledes skulde Gud vite noget? Er det vel kunnskap hos den Høieste?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hosea 7:2
But 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.
Read in contextZephaniah 1:12
And 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.’
Read in contextPsalms 94:7
They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
Read in contextPsalms 139:1–6
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
Read in contextPsalms 44:21
would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Read in contextEzekiel 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 land.’”
Read in contextJob 22:13–14
Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
Read in contextPsalms 73:9
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
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