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The Fool Says There Is No God

Psalms 14:4

In 11 translations

BSB
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
KJV
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not 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 Yahweh?
ASV
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
LSV
Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, || They have not called YHWH.
YLT
Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.
DBY
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.
DRC13:4
Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?
GNV
Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? they call not vpon the Lord.
JPS
'Shall not all the workers of iniquity know it, who eat up My people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD?'
LXXE13:4
Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon the Lord.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הֲלֹ֥א יָדְעוּ֮ כָּל־פֹּ֪עֲלֵ֫י אָ֥וֶן אֹכְלֵ֣י עַ֭מִּי אָ֣כְלוּ לֶ֑חֶם יְ֝הוָ֗ה לֹ֣א קָרָֽאוּ׃
LXX-Br13:4
Οὐχὶ γνώσονται πάντες οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι τὴν ἀνομίαν, οἱ κατέσθοντες τὸν λαόν μου βρώσει ἄρτου; τὸν Κύριον οὐκ ἐπεκαλέσαντο.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 79:6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
  • Jeremiah 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his…
  • Psalms 82:5They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  • Isaiah 64:7No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
  • Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
  • Psalms 27:2When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
  • Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
  • Ephesians 4:17–18So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because…
  • Hosea 7:7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
  • Isaiah 29:14Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
  • Isaiah 45:20Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
  • Psalms 94:8–9Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise? He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?
  • Job 27:10Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
  • Micah 3:2–3You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones. You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh…
  • Galatians 5:15But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
  • Isaiah 5:13Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

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