The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance (literally, the height of his nose) will not seek (after God). So "seek the Lord" is used, Psalms 34:4; Psalms 77:2. The omission of "God," which is not in the Hebrew, is due to the condensed style of the psalm. Compare Jeremiah 13:17; Hosea 7:14. Hengstenberg, with the graphic brevity of the original, translates, 'The wicked, in the height of his pride, (saith) He (God) doth not require it; God is not, (are) all his purposes.' The 13th verse agrees with this - "He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it." The same Hebrew as is here translated "seek" х daarash (H1875)]. Here the fact is represented; in Psalms 10:13 the lawlessness of it, and the need of putting it down. In Psalms 9:12, by the same Hebrew verb is expressed the truth, that though the ungodly deny God's taking cognizance of sin, yet that God, in His good time, 'maketh inquisition for bloods.' Not that the wicked denied God in so many words (see Psalms 10:11), but all their "devices" (the same Hebrew standing for "thoughts" here as stood for "devices," Psalms 10:2 х mªzimowt (H4209)]) and acts were a virtual denial of His being and character, as the Judge who requires or takes cognizance of sin (Titus 1:16).