Psalms 73:11
The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
BSB
ASV
And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?
KJV
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
And they say, How doth God know? Thus dare the ungodly speak. They flatter themselves that their oppressions and persecutions are unobserved of heaven. If there be a God, is he not too much occupied with other matters to know what is going on upon this world? So they console themselves if judgments be threatened. Boasting of their own knowledge, they yet dare to ask, Is there knowledge in the Most High? Well were they called foolish. A God, and not know? This is a solecism in language, a madness of thought.
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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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“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…
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Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and…
He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken…
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Psalms 73:9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
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And the beast opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God and to slander His name and His tabernacle—those who dwell in heaven.
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Psalms 94:7They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
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And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”