The quotation of the wicked's internal conviction that God has forgotten and hidden His face and will never see it establishes that the wicked believes God incapable of or unwilling to judge. The doubling—forgotten and hidden face—emphasizes that the wicked imagines God as absent or inattentive. The declaration that God will never see suggests that the wicked believes his actions will escape divine notice and judgment. This verse reveals the theological conviction underlying the wicked's predatory behavior: the belief that God permits or ignores wickedness.

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