Psalms 73:11 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 73:11

And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

KJV

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ASV

And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

WEB

The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

YLT

And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

DBT

And they say, How canGod know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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17 verses on the floor

Psalms 50:21
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Hosea 7:2
And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
Zephaniah 1:12
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Job 22:13
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Isaiah 29:15
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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As if, because he is Most High, he could not or would not see them, Job xxii. Whereas because he is Most High therefore he can, and will, take cognizance of all the children of men and of all they do, or say, or think. What an affront is it to the God of infinite knowledge, from whom all knowledge is, to ask, Is there knowledge in him?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Surely all things are left to blind fortune, and not disposed of by an all-seeing God." Some of the heathen, upon such a remark as this, have asked, Quis putet esse deos?--Who will believe that there are gods? [2.] Though the psalmist's feet were not so far gone as to question God's omniscience, yet he was tempted to question the benefit of religion, and to say (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 73:11ZEP 1:12 EZE 8:12
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 73:11ZEP 1:12 AMO 6:1
PSA 73:11ZEP 1:12 JER 48:11
PSA 73:11PSA 73:9 REV 13:6
PSA 73:11PSA 94:7 LUK 18:3-4
PSA 73:11HOS 7:2 LUK 12:2
PSA 73:11ZEP 1:12 EZE 9:9
PSA 73:11PSA 94:7 PSA 10:11-13

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