Psalms 82:5
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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In Context
4Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
6I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
Cross References
Job 8:9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on the LORD?
Psalms 75:3The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
Proverbs 1:29because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of the LORD.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
Ecclesiastes 3:16Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 82:2-6
The Duty of Magistrates. 1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. 5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. We have here, I. God's supreme presidency and power in all councils… Read the whole commentary →