תהלים 10:13

Hebrew Modern Translation

על מה נאץ רשע אלהים אמר בלבו לא תדרש׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
נאץ רשע אלהים אמר בלבו לא תדרש

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
עַל־מֶ֤ה ׀ נִאֵ֖ץ רָשָׁ֥ע ׀ אֱלֹהִ֑ים אָמַ֥ר בְּ֝לִבֹּ֗ו לֹ֣א תִּדְרֹֽשׁ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
עַל־מֶה ׀ נִאֵץ רָשָׁע ׀ אֱלֹהִים אָמַר בְּלִבּוֹ לֹא תִּדְרֹֽשׁ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

contemn: Psalms 74:10, Psalms 74:18, Numbers 11:20, 2 Samuel 12:9, 2 Samuel 12:10, Luke 10:16, 1 Thessalonians 4:8

Thou: Genesis 9:5, Genesis 42:22, 2 Chronicles 24:22, Luke 11:50, Luke 11:51

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:9 - I know Joshua 22:23 - let the Lord 2 Kings 19:28 - thy rage 2 Chronicles 32:19 - spake Job 24:23 - yet his eyes Psalms 53:1 - said Psalms 59:7 - who Psalms 86:14 - and have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God?.... God may be said to be contemned or despised, when his being, perfections, and providence are denied, or called in question, or abused, Psalms 10:9; when his word is derided, the great things of his law are counted as a strange thing Hosea 8:12, and the truths of his Gospel are reckoned foolishness; and instead of these, the decrees, doctrines, and traditions of men, are set up, as by antichrist; and when his ministers, and especially his Son, are treated with disdain, Luke 10:16;

he hath said in his heart, thou wilt not require [it], or "seek [it]" i; or inquire after it, his iniquity; the sense is, that God will make no inquiry after sin, and bring it into judgment, unto account, and under examination; or will not make inquisition, that is, for blood, for the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus, shed by antichrist; or will not require it at his hands, or recompense vengeance for it: all which is false and vain; the contrary to it will be found true.

i לא תדרוש "te non inquisiturum", Piscator, Michaelis; so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? - That is, despise him; or treat him with contempt and disregard. On what ground is this done? How is it to be accounted for? What is the proper explanation of so strange a fact? It is to be observed here:

(a) that the psalmist assumes this to be a fact, that the wicked do thus contemn or despise God. Of this he had no doubt; of this there can be no doubt now. They act as if this were so; they often speak of Him as if this were so. They pay no respect to his commands, to his presence, or to his character; they violate all His laws as if they were not worth regarding; they spurn all His counsels and entreaties; they go forward to meet Him as if His wrath were not to be apprehended or dreaded.

(b) So strange a fact, the psalmist says, ought to be accounted for. There must be some reason why it occurs; and what that reason is, is worth an earnest inquiry. It could not be possible to believe that man - the creature of God, and a creature so weak and feeble - could do it, unless the fact were so plain that it could not be denied. It is, then, worth inquiry to learn how so strange a fact can be accounted for; and the solution - the thing which will explain this, and which must be assumed to be true in order to explain it - is stated in the concluding part of the verse.

He hath said in his heart - This expression is here repeated for the third time in the psalm. See Psalms 10:6, Psalms 10:11. The idea is, that all this is the work “of the heart,” and indicates the state of the heart. It cannot be regarded as the dictate of the reason or the judgment; but it is to be traced to the wishes, the feelings, the desires, and is to be regarded as indicating the real condition of the human heart. A man habitually desires this; he practically persuades himself that this is so; he acts as if it were so.

Thou wilt not require it - Thou wilt not require an account of it; thou wilt not inquire into it. The Hebrew is simply: “Thou wilt not seek;” and the idea is, that God would not make an investigation of the matter. This fact, the psalmist says, would account for the conduct of the wicked. This is the actual feeling of wicked men, that they are not to give account of their conduct, or that God will not be strict to mark their deeds. People act as if they were not responsible to their Maker, and as if it were a settled point that he would never call them to account.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 10:13. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? — How is it that the Lord permits such persons to triumph in their iniquity? The longsuffering of God leadeth them to repentance.