Psalms 14:4

"They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one."

Key Reflection

In Psalms 14:4, the psalmist paints a bleak picture of humanity's moral state, declaring that all people have strayed from righteousness and become corrupt. This statement encompasses both individual and collective failure, suggesting that not even one person is capable of goodness without God's intervention—a stark reminder of human depravity in the absence of divine grace.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Have 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 friends of God are inconsistent in their lives; and (c) that they do not call on the name of the Lord, or that they offer no worship to him. The whole verse might have been, and should have been put in the form of a question.

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