Psalms 73:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?””
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BSBPD
“The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 73:11 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 22:13Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
- Psalms 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
- Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- Psalms 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
- Psalms 73:9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
- Psalms 94:7They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
- Psalms 139:1O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
- Ezekiel 8:12“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
- Hosea 7:2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.
- Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
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