Psalms 14:4 - Exposition

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? The exclamation is put in the mouth of God. Can it be possible that none of these evil-doers is aware of the results of evil-doing? Do they think to escape Divine retribution? The "wonder expresses the magnitude of their folly" (Hengstenberg). Who eat up my people as they eat bread . Reducing men to poverty, robbing them, and devouring their substance, is called, in Scripture, devouring the men themselves (see Proverbs 30:14 ; Isaiah 3:14 ; Micah 3:3 ). Those who are plundered and despoiled are compared to "bread" in Numbers 14:2 . The Homeric δημοβόρος βασιλεὺς , adduced by Dr. Kay, is an instance of the same metaphor. And call not upon the Lord . This might have seemed scarcely to need mention, since "how shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?" ( Romans 10:14 ). But it connects them definitely with the atheists of Numbers 14:1 .