Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon LORD?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3They are all gone aside. They are together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.
5There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Cross References
Job 21:15What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
Psalms 27:2When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [even] my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 82:5They know not, nor do they understand. They walk to and fro in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Proverbs 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Isaiah 27:11When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them
Isaiah 44:19And none calls to mind, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire. Yea, I have also baked bread upon the coals of it. I have roasted flesh and eaten it. And shall I make the residue of it
Matthew Henry on Psalms 14:2-4
Human Depravity. 1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. 2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. If we apply our hearts as Solomon did ( Eccl. vii. 25 ) to search out the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness, these… Read the whole commentary →