Psalms 14:4

Psalms 14:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.
• New International Version (NIV)Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on the Lord?

Context of Psalms 14:4

2Yhwh looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon Yhwh. 5There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. 6Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because Yhwh is his refuge.

Psalms 14:4 word by word

הֲלֹ֥א יָדְעוּ֮ כָּל־פֹּ֪עֲלֵ֫י אָ֥וֶן אֹכְלֵ֣י עַ֭מִּי אָ֣כְלוּ לֶ֑חֶם יְ֝הוָ֗ה לֹ֣א קָרָֽאוּ׃Read the interlinear

• Have all the workersפָּעַלpâ‛al · to workH6466
• of iniquityאָ֫וֶן'âven · evil: wickednessH205
• no knowledgeיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• who eat upאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• my peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899
• and callקָרָאqârâ' · to call: call toH7121
• not upon Yhwhיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Psalms 14:4

• Psalms 94:8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
• Isaiah 5:13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
• Isaiah 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
• Isaiah 29:14Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
• Isaiah 44:19And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
• Isaiah 45:20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
• Romans 1:21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
• 2 Corinthians 4:3But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
• Ephesians 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• Jeremiah 10:25Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
• Amos 8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• Micah 3:2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
• Galatians 5:15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
• Psalms 79:6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
• Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
• Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Commentaries on Psalms 14:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? - Is there not one of them who takes this dreadful subject into consideration? To their deeply fallen state they add cruelty; they oppress and destroy the poor, without either interest or reason. Who eat up my people as they eat bread - Ye make them an easy and unresisting prey. They have no power to oppose you, and therefore you destroy them. That this is the meaning of the expression, is plain from the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? - literally, “Do they not know, all the workers of iniquity, eating my people, they eat bread; Jehovah they call not.” The several statements in this verse in confirmation of the fact of their depravity are: (a) that they have no knowledge of God; (b) that they find pleasure in the errors and imperfections of the people of God - sustaining themselves in their own wickedness by the fact that the professed…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4The evil live at the expense of others (Psalms 27:2; 44:11; 53:4; see Isaiah 5:8) and have no reverence or knowledge of God (Psalm 79:6).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. Their conduct evinces indifference rather than ignorance of God; for when He appears in judgment, they are stricken with great fear. who eat up my people--to express their beastly fury (Pr 30:14; Ha 3:14). To "call on the Lord" is to worship Him.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Psalms 14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings