9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth. 10 So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance. 11 The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
Psalms 73:9–11
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Psalms 59:6–8
6 They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city. 7 See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?” 8 But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.
Psalms 94:3–5
3 How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult? 4 They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast. 5 They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.
Malachi 3:14–16
14 You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts? 15 So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’” 16 At that time those w…
Job 22:16–18
16 They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood. 17 They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’ 18 But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Psalms 56:6–8
6 They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life. 7 In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations. 8 You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
Job 22:12–14
12 Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are! 13 Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness? 14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
2 Esdras 8:57–59
57 Moreover they have trodden down his righteous, (WEB) 58 and said in their heart that there is no God—even knowing that they must die. (WEB) 59 For as the things I have said will welcome you, so thirst and pain which are prepared for them. For the Most High didn’t intend that men… (WEB)
Testament of Levi 1:26–27
26 When, therefore, the Lord looketh upon us, all of us are shaken; yea, the heavens, and the earth, and the abysses are shaken at the presence of His majesty. (T12) 27 But the sons of men, having no perception of these things, sin and provoke the Most High. (T12)
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