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Psalm 10:13

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10:13Why does the wicked man reject God?32

He says to himself,33 “You34 will not hold me accountable.”35

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  1. 32 The rhetorical question expresses the psalmist’s outrage that the wicked would have the audacity to disdain God.
  2. 33 Heb “he says in his heart” (see vv. 6, 11). Another option is to understand an ellipsis of the interrogative particle here (cf. the preceding line), “Why does he say in his heart?”
  3. 34 Here the wicked man addresses God directly.
  4. 35 Heb “you will not seek.” The verb דָרַשׁ (darash, “seek”) is used here in the sense of “seek an accounting.” One could understand the imperfect as generalizing about what is typical and translate, “you do not hold [people] accountable.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Why does the wicked renounce God

and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Why does the wicked man revile God?

Why does he say to himself,

“He won’t call me to account”?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Why has the wicked person despised God?

He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”

NLTNew Living Translation

Why do the wicked get away with despising God?

They think, “God will never call us to account.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Why does the wicked treat God with contempt?

He says in his heart, “You will not call me to account.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God?

He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.