Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster; he does not take back his words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked, against those who help evildoers.
NIV
And yet He is wise and brings calamity and does not retract His words; He will arise against the house (the whole race) of evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.
AMP
Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
KJV
God looks down from heaven on the human race to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
NIV
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought (inquired after and desperately required) God.
AMP
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
KJV
Your wickedness only affects human beings like yourself, and your righteousness only members of the human race.
NIV
Your wickedness touches and affects a man such as you are, and your righteousness is for yourself, one of the human race[but it cannot touch God, Who is above such influence].
AMP
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
KJV
