Psalms 10:4

King James Version

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The wicked are too proud to seek God. They seem to think that God is dead.

English Revised Version
The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Update Bible Version
The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, [says], He will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

New Century Version
The wicked people are too proud. They do not look for God; there is no room for God in their thoughts.

New English Translation
The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks, "God won't hold me accountable; he doesn't care."

Webster's Bible Translation
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek [after God]: God [is] not in all his thoughts.

World English Bible
The wicked, in the pride of his face, Has no room in his thoughts for God.

Amplified Bible
The wicked, in the haughtiness of his face, will not seek nor inquire for Him; All his thoughts are, "There is no God [so there is no accountability or punishment]."

English Standard Version
In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The synnere `wraththide the Lord; vp the multitude of his ire he schal not seke.

Berean Standard Bible
In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.

Contemporary English Version
The wicked are too proud to turn to you or even think about you.

American Standard Version
The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Bible in Basic English
The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Complete Jewish Bible
Every scheme of the wicked in his arrogance [says], "There is no God, [so] it won't be held against me."

Darby Translation
The wicked [saith], in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!

Easy-to-Read Version
The wicked are too proud to ask God for help. He does not fit into their plans.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The wicked, in the pride of his countenance [, saith]: 'He will not require'; all his thoughts are: 'There is no God.'

King James Version (1611)
The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seeke after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

New Life Bible
The sinful man in his pride does not look for God. All his thoughts are that there is no God.

New Revised Standard
In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, "God will not seek it out"; all their thoughts are, "There is no God."

Geneva Bible (1587)
The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.

George Lamsa Translation
The wicked in the pride of his countenance will not seek after God; and there is no God in all his thoughts.

Good News Translation
The wicked do not care about the Lord ; in their pride they think that God doesn't matter.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The lawless one, in the loftiness of his countenance, will not enquire, God is not in any of his plots:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-25) The sinner hath provoked the Lord, according to the multitude of his wrath, he will not seek him:

Revised Standard Version
In the pride of his countenance the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The vngodly looketh so proudly as though he cared for none at all: neither is the Lorde in all his thoughtes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.

Christian Standard Bible®
In all his scheming,the wicked person arrogantly thinks,“There’s no accountability,since there’s no God.”

Hebrew Names Version
The wicked, in the pride of his face, Has no room in his thoughts for God.

Lexham English Bible
With bald-faced pride the wicked will not seek God. There is no God in any of his thoughts.

Literal Translation
Through pride of his face, the wicked will not seek; there is no God in all of his schemes.

Young's Literal Translation
The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' [are] all his devices.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The vngodly is so proude and full of indignacio, that he careth not: nether is God before his eyes.

New American Standard Bible
The wicked, in his haughtiness, does not seek Him. There is no God in all his schemes.

New King James Version
The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God; God is in none of his thoughts.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him. All his thoughts are, "There is no God."

Legacy Standard Bible
The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.All his thoughts are, "There is no God."

Contextual Overview

¹ Why standest thou afar off, O Lord ? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? ² The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. ³ For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth. ⁴ The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. ⁵ His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. ⁶ He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. ⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. ⁸ He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. ⁹ He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. ¹⁰ He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the pride: Psalms 18:27, Psalms 101:5, Proverbs 6:17, Proverbs 21:4, Proverbs 30:13, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 3:9

will not: Psalms 14:2, Psalms 27:8, Exodus 5:2, Deuteronomy 8:14, Job 22:17, Proverbs 30:9, Jeremiah 2:31, Daniel 5:22, Daniel 5:23, Zephaniah 2:3

God: etc. or, all his thoughts are, There is no God, Psalms 14:1, Psalms 53:1, Ephesians 2:12

thoughts: Genesis 6:5, Isaiah 59:7, Isaiah 65:2, Jeremiah 4:14, Mark 7:21, Acts 8:22, Romans 1:21, Romans 1:28

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 29:19 - that he bless Job 8:13 - that forget God Job 21:14 - they say Psalms 50:22 - forget Psalms 53:2 - seek Psalms 86:14 - and have Psalms 119:155 - for they Psalms 140:5 - The proud Jeremiah 43:2 - all the Hosea 7:10 - nor Hosea 13:6 - therefore Zephaniah 1:6 - and those Zephaniah 3:2 - she drew Malachi 3:16 - that thought Matthew 7:7 - seek Mark 7:22 - pride Luke 15:13 - and took 2 Corinthians 10:5 - and every 1 Timothy 6:17 - that they

Cross-References

Numbers 24:24
And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

Isaiah 23:1
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

Isaiah 23:12
And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

Ezekiel 27:25
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

Daniel 11:30
For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek [after God],.... We supply it, "after God"; as do the Targum and Kimchi on the place: the sense is, he will not seek to God for counsel or assistance, he will not pray unto him; which is the character of every unregenerate man, Romans 3:11; or, he will not inquire into the will of God, to know what is right or what is wrong, but will do what seems best in his own eyes: and this arises from the pride of his heart, which shows itself in his countenance, in his proud and haughty look. It is said of the little horn, who is antichrist, that he has a look more stout than his fellows, Daniel 7:20. The words may be rendered, "the wicked inquires not into the height of his anger"; so Ainsworth observes; that is, of God's anger; he is not concerned about it; he neither fears God nor regards men. Jarchi's sense of the words is,

"all his thoughts say unto him, God will not inquire into everything that I shall do, for there is no judgment.''

God [is] not in all his thoughts; nor in any of them, for they are evil continually; and if he does at any time think of him, his thoughts of him are wrong; he thinks he is altogether such an one as himself: or, "all his thoughts [are, there is] no God" z: though he does not choose to say so, he thinks so; at least, he wishes it may be so; and he works himself into such impiety and atheism as to deny the providence of God, and thinks that he does not govern the world, nor concern himself with what is done below; that he takes no notice of men's actions, nor will call them to an account for them; and that there will be no future state or judgment, in which secret as well as open things will be made manifest: or, as the Chaldee paraphrase glosses it, "that all his thoughts are not manifest before the Lord".

z אין אלהים כל מזמותיו "non Deus, omnes cogitationes ejus", Montanus, Vatablus, Muis; "nullum esse Deum hae sunt omnes cogitationes ejus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance - In consequence of his pride; or, his pride is the reason of what is here stated. The “pride of his countenance” is a phrase that is used because pride shows itself mainly in the countenance, or in a lofty air and manner. The design is to state the influence of pride in producing the effect here specified.

Will not seek after God - The phrase “after God,” is supplied by our translators. Something clearly is to be supplied, and it is plainly something relating to God - either that the wicked man will not seek after God in prayer, or that he will not inquire after the proofs of his existence and attributes; or that he will not seek after his favor, or that he will not endeavor to know the divine will. All this would be implied in seeking after God, and this is undoubtedly the state of mind that is referred to here. The sinner is unwilling, in any appropriate way, to acknowledge God.

God is not in all his thoughts - Margin, “Or, all his thoughts are, There is no God,” Psalms 14:1. The literal translation is: “No God (are) all his thoughts.” The margin has undoubtedly expressed the meaning better than the translation in the text, since the spirit of the passage is not that the sinner had no thought of God, but that he thought wrong. The fact that he would not seek God, and that he had said that God had forgotten Psalms 10:11, shows that he had some thoughts of God. The language here is properly expressive of belief or desire; either that all his thoughts were that there is no God, i. e, that such was the result of all his meditations and reasonings on the subject; or that he wished that it might be found to be so. The language will admit of either construction, and in either sense it would express the thoughts of the wicked. Its both a matter of practical belief, and as a matter of desire, the language of the wicked is, “No God.” The wicked wish that there were none; he practically believes that there is none. The entire verse, then, expresses the prevailing feelings of a sinner about God:

(a) That he wishes there were none, and practically believes that there is none; and

(b) that the reason or ground of these feelings is pride. Pride will prevent him from seeking God in the following ways:

(1) It makes him unwilling to recognize his dependence upon any being;

(2) it makes him unwilling to confess that he is a sinner;

(3) it makes him unwilling to pray;

(4) it makes him unwilling to seek aid of anyone, even God, in the business of life, in the prosecution of his plans, or in sickness and affliction;

(5) it makes him unwilling to accede to the terms of reconciliation and salvation proposed by God, unwilling to repent, to believe, to submit to His sovereignty, to acknowledge his indebtedness to mere grace for the hope of eternal life.

Pride is at the root of all the atheism, theoretical or practical, on the earth; at the root of all the reluctance which there is to seek the favor of God; at the root, therefore, of the misery and wretchedness of the world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 10:4. Will not seek after God] He is too proud to bend his knee before his Judge; he is too haughty to put on sackcloth, and lay himself in the dust, though without deep repentance and humiliation he must without doubt perish everlastingly.