16But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?


In Context

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High:

15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.

16 But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?

17 Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.

18 When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

Psalm 50:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

50:16But to the wicked, God says: "What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

50:16But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth ?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes; and that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

50:16But to the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

50:16But to the wicked God says, |What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

50:16And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?