Psalms 10:13
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it]?
American Standard 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 Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require; At the hand of every beast will I require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man`s brother, will I require the life of man.
Numbers 11:20but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected Jehovah who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
2 Samuel 12:9Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Job 24:12From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Luke 10:16He that heareth you heareth me; and he that rejecteth you rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth him that 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 →