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Psalms 73:11

Psalms 73:11
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And they say, how doth God know?.... Owning there is a God, but questioning his knowledge; for the words are not an inquiry about the way and manner of his knowing things; which is not by the senses,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And they say - His people say. The connection demands this interpretation. The meaning is, that his people, as they return again and again to this subject Psa 73:10, are constrained to put this…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Psalms 73:1-14

This psalm begins somewhat abruptly: Yet God is good to Israel (so the margin reads it); he had been thinking of the prosperity of the wicked; while he was thus musing the fire burned, and at last he…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The speakers in this verse are not -the wicked," but the deluded mass of their followers described in Psa 73:73. They adopt the language of their leaders, and question God's knowledge of their doings…