The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
And they say, How doth God know? Thus dare the ungodly speak. They flatter themselves that their oppressions and persecutions are unobserved of heaven. If there be a God, is he not too much occupied with other matters to know what is going on upon this world? So they console themselves if judgments be threatened.
Psa 73:11-14 The persons speaking are now those apostates who, deluded by the good fortune and free-thinking of the ungodly, give themselves up to them as slaves. concerning the modal sense of ידע, quomodo sciverit, vid., Psa 11:3, cf. Job 22:13. With וישׁ the doubting question is continued.
Commenting on Psalm 73:11-14
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? (f) Thus the flesh moves even the godly to dispute with God concerning their poor estate, and the prosperity of the wicked.