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Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it].

Wherefore doth the wicked {H7563} contemn {H5006} God {H430}? he hath said {H559} in his heart {H3820}, Thou wilt not require {H1875} it.

Why does the wicked despise God and say in his heart, "It won't be held against me"?

Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not requireit?

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Cross-References

  • Luke 10:16 (2 votes)

    He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

  • Psalms 74:10 (2 votes)

    O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

  • Genesis 9:5 (2 votes)

    And 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.

  • Psalms 74:18 (2 votes)

    ¶ Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

  • 2 Samuel 12:9 (2 votes)

    Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

  • 2 Samuel 12:10 (2 votes)

    Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

  • 2 Chronicles 24:22 (2 votes)

    Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon [it], and require [it].