Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, "You will never call me to account."
Cross References
Psalm 10:3For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
Psalm 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, "Who sees us, and who will know?"
Treasury of Scripture
Why does the wicked scorn God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.
contemn
Psalm 74:10,18
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? …
Numbers 11:20
But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
2 Samuel 12:9,10
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon…
Thou
Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Genesis 42:22
And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
