Psalms 14:1
“To the chief musician, by David.” The worthless fool saith in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they are abominable [in their] doings, there is none that doth good.
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Genesis 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
1 Samuel 25:25Let not my Lord, I pray thee, turn his heart unto this worthless man, unto Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and meanness is with him; but I thy hand-maid did not see the young men of my Lord, whom thou didst send.
Job 22:13But thou sayest, “What doth God know? can he judge behind the darkness?
Psalms 36:1“To the chief musician, by the servant of the Lord, by David.” (36:2) Saith vice itself to the wicked—so I feel it within my heart— that he should have no dread of God before his eyes.
Psalms 53:1“To the chief musician upon Machalath, a Maskil of David.” (53:2) The worthless fool saith in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and they are abominable [in their] injustice: there is none that doth good.
Psalms 92:6(92:7) A brutish man knoweth it not, and a fool cannot understand this.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 14:1
It does not appear upon what occasion this psalm was penned nor whether upon any particular occasion. Some say David penned it when Saul persecuted him; others, when Absalom rebelled against him. But they are mere conjectures, which have not certainty enough to warrant us to expound the psalm by them. The apostle, in quoting part of this psalm ( Rom. iii. 10 , &c.) to prove that Jews and Gentiles are all under sin ( ver. 9 ) and that all the world is guilty before God ( ver. 19 ), leads us to understand it, in… Read the whole commentary →