Psalm 73:11 {72:11}
Good News Translation
They say, "God will not know; the Most High will not find out."

New Revised Standard Version
And they say, “How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

Contemporary English Version
Only evil people would say, "God Most High cannot know everything!"

New American Bible
They say, “Does God really know?” “Does the Most High have any knowledge?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

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Psalm 73:9 They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

Psalm 10:11 For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see to the end.

Psalm 94:7 And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

Job 22:13,14 And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist. . . .

Ezekiel 8:12 And he said to me: Surely thou seest, O son of man, what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in private in his chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

Zephaniah 1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and will visit upon the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their hearts: The Lord will not do good, nor will he do evil.

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Psalm 44:21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:

Psalm 139:1-6 Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me: . . .

Hosea 7:2 And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face.

Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
10Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them. 11And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?12Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they have obtained riches.…
Cross References
Job 22:13
And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.

Psalm 59:7
Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?

Psalm 73:10
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