Psalms 14:4

In his sight an evil-worker is set at nought, 1 But he honors them that fear the Lord. 1 He swears to his neighbor, and disappoints him not. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

In Context

3Who has not spoken craftily with his tongue, 1 Neither has done evil to his neighbor, 1 Nor taken up a reproach against them that dwelt nearest to him. 1

5He has not lent his money on usury, 1 And has not received bribes against the innocent. 1 He that does these things shall never be moved.

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Cross References

Job 21:15What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? 1 And what profit is there that we should approach him? 1

Psalms 27:2Hearken to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee, 1 When I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple. 1

Psalms 82:5They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; 1 And let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all. 1

Proverbs 30:14A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

Isaiah 27:11And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of the grass being parched. Come hither, ye women that come from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have no pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy upon them.

Isaiah 44:19And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burned up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on the coals thereof and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship 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 →

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