An outlook and lifestyle which does not acknowledge God. God frustrates the evil purposes of the godless and judges them. Believers are to guard against godlessness.

Psalms 14:1-3

Godlessness is an outlook and lifestyle which does not acknowledge God

See also

Job 35:9-10

pp Ps 53:1-3

Psalms 10:4-11; 36:1-4
Proverbs 11:9; 30:8-9
Jeremiah 23:11-12,15-17

Examples of godlessness

Hebrews 12:16

Judah's religious leaders:

Esau

Job 8:11-19; 34:29-30

God frustrates the evil purposes of the godless

Psalms 9:17-20
Romans 1:18

God judges godless people and nations

Job 13:15-16; 15:34; 20:4-5; 27:8-10; 36:8-13
Psalms 50:16-22

The book of Job was written against a background which made no allowance for the prosperity of the godless or the misery of the godly, so no attempt is made to reconcile these things with the justice of God (as it is, for instance, in Ps 73):

Isaiah 10:6; 33:13-14
Jude 1:3-23

Believers are to guard against godlessness

See also

1 Timothy 4:7; 6:20-21
Romans 11:26-27

Jesus Christ will turn godlessness away from Israel

See also

1095 God, patience of
6020 sin
6154 fall, the
6231 rejection of God
8265 godliness
8703 antinomianism
8704 apostasy
8710 atheism
8712 denial of Christ
8764 forgetting God
8768 idolatry
8847 vulgarity