Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not requireit?
WEB
Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
YLT
Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.'
DBT
Wherefore doth the wicked contemnGod? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it].
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — 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.