Psalms 14:4
Is there no knowledge in all the workers of wickedness? who eat up my people as they eat bread; [while] they do not call on the Lord.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
5There are they terrified in terror; for God is with the righteous generation:
Cross References
Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit shall we have, if we entreat him urgently?”
Psalms 27:2When evil-doers come near against me to eat up my flesh, my assailants and my enemies at me: then do they stumble and fall.
Psalms 82:5They know not, nor will they understand; in darkness do they walk on: all the foundations of the earth are moved.
Proverbs 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and whose string teeth are as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Isaiah 27:11When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off; women will come and set them on fire; for it is not a people of understanding; therefore he that made it will not have mercy on it, and he that formed it will show it no favor.
Isaiah 44:19And he layeth it not to heart, and hath no knowledge, no understanding, to say, The half thereof have I burnt in fire; and I have also baked upon its coals bread; I [now] will roast flesh, and eat it: and shall I make of its residue an abomination, before a block of wood shall I kneel?
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 →