Psalms 14:4
Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? they call not vpon the Lord.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
3All are gone out of the way: they are all corrupt: there is none that doeth good, no not one.
5There they shall be taken with feare, because God is in the generation of the iust.
Cross References
Job 21:15Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
Psalms 27:2When the wicked, euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon mee to eate vp my flesh; they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 82:5They knowe not and vnderstand nothing: they walke in darkenes, albeit all the foundations of the earth be mooued.
Proverbs 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore from among men.
Isaiah 27:11When the boughes of it are drie, they shalbe broken: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of none vnderstading: therefore hee that made them, shall not haue compassion of them, and he that formed them, shall haue no mercie on them.
Isaiah 44:19And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor vnderstanding to say, I haue burnt halfe of it, euen in the fire, and haue baked bread also vpon the coles thereof: I haue rosted flesh, and eaten it, and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I bowe to the stocke of a tree?
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 →