Key Verse Spotlight
Psalms 14:4 — Meaning and Application
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.”
Psalms 14:4
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, {and} seek God.
They are all gone aside, they are {all} together become filthy: {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one. {filthy: Heb. stinking}
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people {as} they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
There were they in great fear: for God {is} in the generation of the righteous. {were...: Heb. they feared a fear}
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD {is} his refuge.
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