Psalms 10:13
Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require [it]?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
In Context
12Arise, O LORD, O God, lift up thy hand. Do not forget the poor.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
Numbers 11:20but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you, because ye have rejected LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?
2 Samuel 12:9Why have thou despised the word of LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? Thou have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be thy wife, and have slain him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
Job 24:12From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever?
Luke 10:16He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 10:13-18
Prayer against Persecutors. 12 Arise, O Lord ; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. 16 The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are… Read the whole commentary →