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Psalm 14:4

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14:4All those who behave wickedly12 do not understand—13

those who devour my people as if they were eating bread,

and do not call out to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 12 Heb “all the workers of wickedness.” See Pss 5:5; 6:8.
  2. 13 Heb “Do they not understand?” The rhetorical question (rendered in the translation as a positive affirmation) expresses the psalmist’s amazement at their apparent lack of understanding. This may refer to their lack of moral understanding, but it more likely refers to their failure to anticipate God’s defense of his people (see vv. 5–7).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers

who eat up my people as they eat bread

and do not call upon the Lord?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Do all these evildoers know nothing?

They devour my people as though eating bread;

they never call on the Lord.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Will evildoers never understand?

They consume my people as they consume bread;

they do not call on the Lord.

NLTNew Living Translation

Will those who do evil never learn?

They eat up my people like bread

and wouldn’t think of praying to the Lord.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

All who do evil—do they not know,

they who eat my people as though they were eating bread?

They do not call on Yahweh.

KJV 1900King 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.