Psalms 10:13
Wherefore does the wicked contemn God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.
Updated King James 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 yours hand: forget not the humble.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Numbers 11:20But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that all of you have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
2 Samuel 12:9Wherefore have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? you have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Job 24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.
Psalms 74:10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
Luke 10:16He that hears you hears me; and he that despises you despises me; and he that despises me despises 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 →