Psalm 53:2 {52:3}
Good News Translation
God looks down from heaven at people to see if there are any who are wise, any who worship him.

New Revised Standard Version
God looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.

Contemporary English Version
From heaven God looks down to see if anyone is wise enough to search for him.

New American Bible
God looks out from the heavens upon the children of Adam, To see if there is a discerning person who is seeking God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God.

looked

Psalm 11:4 For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

Psalm 33:13,14 The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of men. . . .

Psalm 102:19 Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

Jeremiah 16:17 For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my eyes.

Jeremiah 23:24 Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?

any that

Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever.

Deuteronomy 4:6 And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation.

Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

seek

Psalm 10:4 The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him:

Psalm 27:8 My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O Lord, will I still seek.

1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

2 Chronicles 19:3 But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away the groves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek the Lord the God of thy fathers.

Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.

Context
The Fool Says There is No God
1Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said in his heart: There is no God. [2] They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good. 2God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God.3All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there is none that doth good, no not one.…
Cross References
Romans 3:11
There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after God.

2 Chronicles 15:2
And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Psalm 102:19
Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

Psalm 53:1
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