Psalms 53:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? - See the notes at Psalms 14:4. The only change in this verse is in the omission of the word “all.” This word, as it occurs in Psalms 14:1-7 (“all the workers of iniquity”), makes the sentence stronger and more emphatic. It is designed to affirm in the most absolute and unqualified manner that none of these workers of iniquity had any true knowledge of God. This has been noticed by critics as the only instance in which the expression in Psalms 14:1-7 is stronger than in the revised form of the psalm before us.

Psalms 53:4

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