Psalms 10:11
Wicked people say, “God will not pay any attention to what we do. His eyes are covered, so he never sees anything.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
In Context
Cross References
Job 22:13So why do you say, ‘What does God know about what we are doing? He is hidden from us by dark clouds, so ◄ how can he judge us?/he certainly cannot judge us.► [RHQ]’
Psalms 59:8But Yahweh, you laugh at them. You ◄scoff at/ridicule► the people of the pagan nations.
Psalms 64:6because we have planned very well the crime that we are going to commit!” No one can fully understand what people can think and plan!
Psalms 94:7Those wicked people say, “Yahweh does not see anything; so the God whom those Israelis worship does not see the evil things that we do.”
Ezekiel 8:12Yahweh said to me, “You human, look at [RHQ] what the Israeli elders are doing here in the darkness, each of them standing in front of the shrine of his own idol! They are saying, ‘Yahweh does not see us; Yahweh has deserted this country.’”
Hosea 7:2But they do not realize that I do not forget all the evil things that they do. It is as though they are surrounded by all the sins that they commit; and it is though those sins are always right in front of me [MTY].
Matthew Henry on Psalms 10:2-12
The Character of the Wicked; The Character of Persecutors. 1 Why standest thou afar off, O Lord ? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far… Read the whole commentary →