Psalm 53:4 {52:5}
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Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?

Psalm 59:2
Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Psalm 79:6
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

Psalm 79:7
Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.

Jeremiah 4:22
For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Micah 3:2
And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?

Have.

70 MSS, several editions, and the ancient versions add 'kol' `all' as in

Psalm 14

Psalm 94:8 Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last.

Isaiah 27:11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Jeremiah 4:22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Matthew 23:17 Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

who eat

Psalm 27:2 Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

Jeremiah 10:25 Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his glory.

Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest in the beast: These shall hate the harlot and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and shall burn her with fire.

Context
The Fool Says There is No God
3All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there is none that doth good, no not one. 4Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?5They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them.…
Lexicon
Will the workers
פֹּ֤עֲלֵ֫י (pō·‘ă·lê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6466: To do, make, to practise

of iniquity
אָ֥וֶן (’ā·wen)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 205: Strictly nothingness, trouble, vanity, wickedness, an idol

never
הֲלֹ֥א (hă·lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

learn?
יָדְעוּ֮ (yā·ḏə·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

They devour
אֹכְלֵ֣י (’ō·ḵə·lê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

my people
עַ֭מִּי (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

[like]
אָ֣כְלוּ (’ā·ḵə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

bread;
לֶ֑חֶם (le·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3899: Food, bread, grain

they refuse
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

to call upon
קָרָֽאוּ׃ (qā·rā·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7121: To call, proclaim, read

the LORD.
אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


Additional Translations
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called on God.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God?

Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear:

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? they call not upon God.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon God.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread! they have not called upon God.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?

Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.
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