Psalm 10:5 {9:26}
Good News Translation
The wicked succeed in everything. They cannot understand God's judgments; they sneer at their enemies.

New Revised Standard Version
Their ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of their sight; as for their foes, they scoff at them.

Contemporary English Version
They are always successful, though they can't understand your teachings, and they keep sneering at their enemies.

New American Bible
Yet their affairs always succeed; they ignore your judgment on high; they sneer at all who oppose them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy judgments are removed from his sight: he shall rule over all his enemies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy judgments are removed from his sight: he shall rule over all his enemies.

His

Genesis 6:12 And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth),

Proverbs 1:19 Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:

Proverbs 2:13,15 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most wicked things: . . .

Isaiah 10:1 Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

Hosea 9:9 They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.

Romans 3:16 Destruction and misery in their ways:

thy judgments

Psalm 92:5,6 O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep. . . .

Proverbs 15:24 The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell.

Proverbs 24:1 Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:

Isaiah 5:12 The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Isaiah 26:11 Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.

Isaiah 28:15 For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood we are protected.

Isaiah 42:25 And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not.

Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

he puffeth

Psalm 12:5 By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.

Judges 9:27,38 Went out into the fields, wasting the vineyards, and treading down the grapes: and singing and dancing, they went into the temple of their god, and in their banquets and cups they cursed Abimelech. . . .

2 Samuel 5:6 And the king and all the men that were with him went to Jerusalem to the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land: and they said to David: Thou shalt not come in hither unless thou take away the blind and the lame that say: David shall not come in hither.

1 Kings 20:10,11,13 And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent again, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. . . .

Context
The Perils of the Pilgrim
4The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him: 5God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy judgments are removed from his sight: he shall rule over all his enemies.6For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be moved from generation to generation, and shall be without evil.…
Cross References
Psalm 17:4
That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.

Psalm 28:5
Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the operations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build them up.

Psalm 52:7
Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.

Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he shall not open his mouth.

Psalm 10:4
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