Psalms 73:11
“How does God know?” they say, “And has the Most High any knowledge?”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
In Context
10Small wonder that people resort to them, and drink deep draughts of their lore.
12See! These are the godless, with wealth and ease ever increasing.
Cross References
Psalms 10:4in wicked pride, thinks: God doesn’t care, God doesn’t call to account.
Psalms 44:21would God not have searched this out? For he knows the heart and its secrets.
Psalms 94:7They think that the Lord does not see, nor the God of Jacob regard it.
Zephaniah 1:12I will search Jerusalem with a lamp, I will punish those who are at ease, who sit comfortably with their wine, who say to themselves, “the Lord brings neither prosperity nor calamity.”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:2-15
God's Goodness to His People; Unsanctified Prosperity. 1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 7… Read the whole commentary →