Psalm 53:4 {52:5}
Good News Translation
"Don't they know?" God asks. "Are these evildoers ignorant? They live by robbing my people, and they never pray to me."

New Revised Standard Version
Have they no knowledge, those evildoers, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

Contemporary English Version
Won't you lawbreakers learn? You refuse to pray, and you gobble up the people of God.

New American Bible
Do they not know better, those who do evil, who feed upon my people as they feed upon bread? Have they not called upon God?

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

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.…
Cross References
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,

Psalm 53:3
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