Psalms 10:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Ps 53:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 I will put to death anyone who says evil of his neighbour secretly; the man with a high look and a heart of pride is disgusting to me.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
  • Prov 21:4 : 4 A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.
  • Prov 30:9 : 9 For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.
  • Prov 30:13 : 13 There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!
  • Isa 2:11 : 11 The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.
  • Isa 3:9 : 9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.
  • Isa 65:2 : 2 All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
  • Dan 5:22-23 : 22 And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this; 23 But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
  • Zeph 2:3 : 3 Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.
  • Mark 7:21 : 21 Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,
  • Acts 8:22 : 22 Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.
  • Rom 1:21 : 21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
  • Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.
  • Deut 8:14 : 14 Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;
  • Job 22:17 : 17 Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?
  • Ps 14:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good. 2 The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
  • Ps 18:27 : 27 For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.
  • Ps 27:8 : 8 When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.
  • Ps 36:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

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  • 13 Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

  • Ps 10:2-3
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    2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

    3 For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

  • Ps 10:5-6
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    5 His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

    6 He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

  • Ps 36:1-4
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    1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

    2 For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

    3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

    4 He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

  • 11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

  • 4 A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

  • 7 See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

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    4 For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

    5 The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.

  • 10 Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.

  • 13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

  • 10 The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

  • 8 O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.)

  • 29 The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.

  • 11 Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

  • 7 And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

  • 21 Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.

  • 4 The false heart I will send away from me: I will not have an evil-doer for a friend.

  • 10 For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

  • 5 Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

  • 3 Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.

  • 16 But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?

  • 16 Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

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    4 The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

    5 For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

  • 10 For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.

  • 3 By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • 10 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.

  • 24 The man of pride, lifted up in soul, is named high-hearted; he is acting in an outburst of pride.

  • 11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place.

  • 9 For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

  • 18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

  • 7 But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.

  • 4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

  • 11 For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

  • 32 The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

  • 24 For this cause men go in fear of him; he has no respect for any who are wise in heart.

  • 4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

  • 4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

  • 10 The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

  • 4 As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith.

  • 11 Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.