Psalm 14:1
New International Version
For the director of music. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.

New Living Translation
Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good!

English Standard Version
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.

Berean Standard Bible
For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.

King James Bible
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

New King James Version
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good.

New American Standard Bible
For the music director. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed detestable acts; There is no one who does good.

NASB 1995
For the choir director. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good.

NASB 1977
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good.

Legacy Standard Bible
For the choir director. Of David. The wicked fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They act corruptly, they commit abominable deeds; There is no one who does good.

Amplified Bible
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The [spiritually ignorant] fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed repulsive and unspeakable deeds; There is no one who does good.

Christian Standard Bible
For the choir director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There’s no God.” They are corrupt; they do vile deeds. There is no one who does good.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the choir director. Davidic. The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.” They are corrupt; they do vile deeds. There is no one who does good.

American Standard Version
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The evil one has said in his heart, "There is no God.” They are corrupted and they are defiled in their schemes and there is none who does good.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the end, Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in their devices; there is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one.

Contemporary English Version
Only a fool would say, "There is no God!" People like that are worthless; they are heartless and cruel and never do right.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God, They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one.

English Revised Version
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; there is none that doeth good.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[For the choir director; by David.] Godless fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. There is no one who does good things.

Good News Translation
Fools say to themselves, "There is no God!" They are all corrupt, and they have done terrible things; there is no one who does what is right.

International Standard Version
Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They are corrupt and commit evil deeds; not one of them practices what is good.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the Leader. [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart: 'There is no God'; They have dealt corruptly, they have done abominably; There is none that doeth good.

Literal Standard Version
TO THE OVERSEER. BY DAVID. A fool has said in his heart, “There is no God”; They have done corruptly, | They have done abominable actions, | There is not a doer of good.

Majority Standard Bible
For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.

New American Bible
For the leader. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” Their deeds are loathsome and corrupt; not one does what is good.

NET Bible
For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.

New Revised Standard Version
Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.

New Heart English Bible
[For the Chief Musician. By David.] The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable works. There is none who does good.

Webster's Bible Translation
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

World English Bible
For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

Young's Literal Translation
To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

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Context
The Fool Says There is No God
1For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good. 2The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.…

Cross References
Romans 3:10
As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one.

Genesis 6:5
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

Genesis 6:12
And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

Job 15:16
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

Psalm 10:4
In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.

Psalm 53:1
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and vile in their ways; there is no one who does good.

Psalm 74:18
Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.


Treasury of Scripture

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

fool

Psalm 73:3
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 92:6
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Psalm 106:17
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

no

Psalm 10:4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Psalm 52:1-6
To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually…

Job 22:13
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

They are

Psalm 36:1-4
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes…

Psalm 94:4-8
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? …

Genesis 6:5,11,12
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually…

abominable

Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

there

Romans 3:10-12
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: …

Ephesians 2:1-3
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; …

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Psalm 14
1. David describes a natural man
4. He convinces the wicked by the light of their conscience
7. He glories in the salvation of God














(1) Fool.--Heb., nabal, from a root meaning "to wither;" hence flat, insipid (insipiens). But this is not therefore speculative atheism, but practical--a denial of the moral government of God--so that fool and wicked become almost synonymous.

They have done abominable works.--Literally, they have made to be abhorred their works. The LXX. and Vulg. have caught the sense, "They have become abominable in their practices." Instead of works, Psalms 53 has "iniquity."

Verse 1. - The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. An atheism is here depicted which goes beyond even that of Psalm 10. There the existence of God was not so much denied as his providence. Here his existence is not only denied, but denied in the very depths of the man's heart. He has contrived to convince himself of what he so much wishes. The psalmist regards such a state of mind as indicative of that utter perversity and folly which is implied in the term nabal (נָבַל). They are corrupt; literally, they have corrupted themselves (comp. Gem 6:12; Judges 2:19). Their atheism is accompanied by deep moral corruption. We have no right to say that this is always so; but the tendency of atheism to relax moral restraints is indisputable. They have done abominable works (comp. vers. 3 and 4). There is none that doeth good; i.e. none among them. The psalmist does not intend his words to apply to the whole human race. He has in his mind a, " righteous generation" (ver. 5), "God's people" (ver. 4), whom he sets over against the wicked, both in this psalm and elsewhere universally (see Psalm 1:1-3; Psalm 2:12; Psalm 3:8; Psalm 4:3, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For the choirmaster.
לַמְנַצֵּ֗חַ (lam·naṣ·ṣê·aḥ)
Preposition-l, Article | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5329: To glitter from afar, to be eminent, to be permanent

Of David.
לְדָ֫וִ֥ד (lə·ḏā·wiḏ)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

The fool
נָבָ֣ל (nā·ḇāl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 5036: Foolish, senseless

says
אָ֘מַ֤ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

in his heart,
בְּ֭לִבּוֹ (bə·lib·bōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

“[There is] no
אֵ֣ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

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

They are corrupt;
הִֽשְׁחִ֗יתוּ (hiš·ḥî·ṯū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin

their acts
עֲלִילָ֗ה (‘ă·lî·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5949: An exploit, a performance, an opportunity

are vile.
הִֽתְעִ֥יבוּ (hiṯ·‘î·ḇū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 8581: To loathe, detest

There is no
אֵ֣ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

one who does
עֹֽשֵׂה־ (‘ō·śêh-)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6213: To do, make

good.
טֽוֹב׃ (ṭō·wḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good


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