Psalms 10:11
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.
American King James Version (AKJV)
He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.
American Standard Version (ASV)
He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
Webster's Revision
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
World English Bible
He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."
English Revised Version (ERV)
He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Clarke's Psalms 10:11 Bible Commentary
God hath forgotten - He hath cast off this people, and he will never more re-establish them. So Sanballat thought.
Barnes's Psalms 10:11 Bible Commentary
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten - That is, this is his practical, habitual feeling. He acts as if God had forgotten, or as if God takes no knowledge of what is occurring in the earth. Compare Psalm 10:6.
He hideth his face - God has hidden his face; that is, he does not look on what is occurring.
He will never see it - That is, he will never see what is done. It cannot be supposed that any man would deliberately say either that the memory of God has failed, or that he will not see what is done upon the earth, but the meaning is, that this is the practical feeling of the wicked man; he acts as if this were so. He is no more restrained in his conduct than he would be if this were his deliberate conviction, or than if he had settled it in his mind that God is regardless of human actions. It is hardly necessary to say that this is a correct description of the conduct of wicked men. If they deliberately believed that God was regardless of human conduct, if they were certain that he would not behold what is done, their conduct would not be different from what it is now. They do not act as if his eye were upon them; they are not restrained by any sense of his presence.