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

2Adonai looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. 3They all turned aside, became corrupt. There is no one who does good —not even one. “Will evildoers never understand— those who consume My people as they eat bread— and never call on Adonai?” 5There they are, in great dread. For God is with the righteous generation. 6You would frustrate the plan of the lowly. Surely Adonai is his refuge!

Psalms 14:4 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• 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 the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Psalms 14:4

• Psalms 94:8Pay attention, stupid among the people! Fools, when will you comprehend?
• Isaiah 5:13“Therefore My people are in captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished and their multitudes parched with thirst.
• Isaiah 27:11When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women come and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore their Maker will show them no mercy—He who formed them will give them no grace.
• Isaiah 29:14Therefore, behold, once more I will do a marvelous work among this people— a marvel and a wonder— so the wisdom of their wise will perish, and the discernment of their discerning will be concealed.”
• Isaiah 44:19No one reflects in his heart, with no knowledge or discernment to say, “I burned half of it in the fire and I also baked bread on its coals. I roasted meat and ate—and then I make the rest of it an abomination? Should I bow before a block of wood?”
• Isaiah 45:20“Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, fugitives of the nations! Those who carry their wooden idols have no knowledge, praying to a god who cannot save.
• Romans 1:21for even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. Instead, their thinking became futile, and their senseless hearts were made dark.
• 2 Corinthians 4:3And even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
• Ephesians 4:17So I tell you this, indeed I insist on it in the Lord—walk no longer as the pagans do, stumbling around in the futility of their thinking.
• Jeremiah 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You and on the families that do not call on Your Name. For they have devoured Jacob, devoured and consumed him, and destroyed his homeland.
• Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the poor, destroying the afflicted of the land
• Micah 3:2You haters of good and lovers of evil, you are robbing their skin from them and their flesh from their bones.”
• Galatians 5:15But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not destroyed by one another.
• Psalms 79:6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that do not call on Your name.
• Job 21:15Who is Shaddai that we should serve Him? What would we gain if we pray to Him?’
• Job 27:10Will he delight in Shaddai? Will he call upon God at all times?

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

Topics related to Psalms 14:4

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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