--- title: "Psalms 14 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Psalms 14 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 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. 2 The LORD looked do" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/psalms/14" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/14)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/14)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/14) Audio 1 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. 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, *and* seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are *all* together become filthy: *there is* none that doeth good, no, not one.* 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people *as* they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD. 5 There were they in great fear: for God *is* in the generation of the righteous.* 6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD *is* his refuge. 7 Oh that the salvation of Israel *were come* out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, *and* Israel shall be glad.* [Psalms 13](/study/psalms/13) [Psalms 15](/study/psalms/15) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Psalms 14:0](/kjv/psalms/14/0). *David describeth the corruption of a natural man: he convinceth the wicked by the light of their conscience: he glorieth in the salvation of God.* To the chief musician. *A Psalm*of David. ***Title.*****—** לדוד למנצח *lamnatseach ledavid.*This Psalm is thought to have been composed by David upon the almost total defection of his people to Absalom. The 5th verse seems strongly to mark this circumstance. See 2Sa 17:8; [2 Samuel 17:29](/kjv/2-samuel/17/29). Mr. Mudge however observes, that it appears from the last verse, that this Psalm was composed during the captivity, and from the 4th and 5th verses, that it arose from a particular incident, where the heathens, in the midst of their carousing, without any sense of God, or acknowledgment of his goodness, were somehow put into a great fright (where there were no human grounds for fear, as the 52nd Psalm adds). This seems to point out the feast of Belshazzar; where the utmost loose was given to impiety; the sacred vessels, purely in defiance, being employed to promote their debauchery; and where they were frightened indeed in a manner wholly supernatural. ***[Psalms 14:1](/kjv/psalms/14/1)*****.*****The fool*****—** By the *fool*is here meant the pagan: It is thus that Job 30:8 calls the heathenish Cutheans, *children of fools;*that is, of Gentile extraction. In eminent calamity it was in the early ages a pagan practice, not only to call in question the existence of their deities, but likewise to prosecute them with the most dreadful curses and imprecations. The Jews, fond of imbibing the customs of their pagan neighbours, seem to have enfranchised this among others. In the simplicity of early ages, when men were at their ease, that general opinion, so congenial to the human mind, of a God and his moral government, was so strong as never to be brought into question. It was when they found themselves in distress and misery, whether in public or private life, that they began to complain, to question the justice, or deny the existence of Providence. Thus far Bishop Warburton. Others however imagine, that by the word *fool,*both here and in [Psalms 53:0](/kjv/psalms/53/0) libertines, and profane persons in general, are denoted, whose minds were depraved by the viciousness of their hearts. Thus the Platonists styled all wicked men *fools,*though they seemed to themselves to be very wise. 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