Psalms 10:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רָשָׁ֗ע כְּגֹ֣בַהּ אַ֭פּוֹ בַּל־יִדְרֹ֑שׁ אֵ֥ין אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים כָּל־מְזִמּוֹתָֽיו׃

Transliteration

rāšāʿ kĕgōbah ʾappô bal-yidrōš ʾên ʾĕlōhîm kol-mĕzimmôtāyw

Grammar Details

• *rāšāʿ*: noun masculine singular - wicked person
• *kĕgōbah*: preposition + noun masculine construct - according to height of
• *ʾappô*: noun masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his nose/anger
• *bal*: negative particle - not
• *yidrōš*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he seeks/inquires
• *ʾên*: particle of negation - there is no
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun masculine plural - God/gods
• *kol*: noun masculine singular construct - all of
• *mĕzimmôtāyw*: noun feminine plural + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his thoughts/schemes

Word Meanings

• *rāšāʿ*: wicked person/evildoer
• *gōbah*: height/loftiness/pride
• *ʾap*: nose/face/anger
• *yidrōš*: seek/inquire/investigate
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods/divine being
• *mĕzimmôt*: thoughts/schemes/devices

Referenced Verses

• Ps 53:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth good.
• Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
• Prov 6:17 : 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
• Prov 21:4 : 4 A high look, and a proud heart, [Even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
• Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of my God.
• Prov 30:13 : 13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.
• Isa 2:11 : 11 The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Isa 3:9 : 9 The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.
• Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
• Isa 65:2 : 2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, that walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
• Jer 2:31 : 31 O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?
• Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
• Dan 5:22-23 : 22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this, 23 but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
• Zeph 2:3 : 3 Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger.
• Mark 7:21 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
• Acts 8:22 : 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.
• Rom 1:21 : 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they {G1381} {G3756} refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• Eph 2:12 : 12 that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
• Gen 6:5 : 5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
• Deut 8:14 : 14 then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget Jehovah thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
• Job 22:17 : 17 Who said unto God, Depart from us; And, What can the Almighty do for us?
• Ps 14:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good. 2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.
• Ps 18:27 : 27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.
• Ps 27:8 : 8 [ When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; My heart said unto thee, Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.
• Ps 36:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David the servant of Jehovah. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.