Psalms 14 · Verse 4

Psalms 14:4

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

Psalms 14:4, King James Version

Psalms 14:4 in other translations

BSB	Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
WEB	Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on the LORD?
ASV	Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
YLT	Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.
DARBY	Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.
BBE	Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
Webster	Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

What does Psalms 14:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 14:4-6

4-6. 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 4 Have 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 speech of Joshua and Caleb relative to the Canaanites. Num 14:9 : "Neither fear ye the people or the land; for they are bread for us." And call not upon the Lord - They have no defense, for they invoke not the Lord. They are all either atheists or idolaters.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Psalms 14:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הֲלֹ֥אha.Lo'¿ notH3808

יָדְעוּ֮ya.de.'Udo they knowH3045

כָּל\־kol-allH3605

פֹּ֪עֲלֵ֫יpo.'a.Lei[those who] doH6466

אָ֥וֶן'A.ven<of> wickednessH205

אֹכְלֵ֣י'o.khe.Lei[those who] devourH398

עַ֭מִּי'A.mi<of> people myH5971

אָ֣כְלוּ'A.khe.luthey eatH398

לֶ֑חֶםLe.chembreadH3899

יְ֝הוָ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3068

לֹ֣אlo'notH3808

קָרָֽאוּ\׃ka.Ra.'uthey call onH7121

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 14:4

Psalms 79:6
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour 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.
Psalms 82:5
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Isaiah 64:7
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Amos 8:4
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Ephesians 4:17-18
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Psalms 27:2
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Galatians 5:15
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Micah 3:2-3
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Psalms 94:8-9
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Have.
94:8,9; Isa 5:13; 27:11; 29:14; 44:19,20; 45:20; Ro 1:21,22,28
2Co 4:3,4; Eph 4:17,18
eat up.
Jer 10:25; Am 8:4; Mic 3:2,3; Ga 5:15
and.
79:6; Job 21:15; 27:10; Isa 64:7

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Context

Psalms 14:3
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.
Psalms 14:5
There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

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Psalms 14:4 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	¿No tendrán conocimiento todos los que obran iniquidad, que devoran á mi pueblo como si pan comiesen, y á Jehová no invocaron?
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Tous les ouvriers d’iniquité n’ont-ils aucune connaissance? Ils dévorent mon peuple comme on mange du pain; ils n’invoquent point l’ Éternel.
German Elberfelder 1871	Haben keine Erkenntnis alle, die Frevel tun, die mein Volk fressen, als äßen sie Brot? Jehova rufen sie nicht an.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Ad nihilum deductus est in conspectu ejus malignus; timentes autem Dominum glorificat. Qui jurat proximo suo, et non decipit;