Psalms 53:4

“Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? etc.] In (<191404>Psalm 14:4), it is, “have all the workers”, etc. There are none of them but what have, unless given up to judicial blindness, and hardness of heart, to believe a lie, as antichrist and his followers, (<530210>2 Thessalonians 2:10,11); (see Gill on “<191404>Psalm 14:4”); who eat up my people, [as] they eat bread; and drink their blood, and are drunken with it, (<661706>Revelation 17:6); they have not called upon God; but upon their idols, upon the Virgin Mary, and saints departed. In (<191404>Psalm 14:4), it is, “upon the Lord”.”

“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. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Have: Here 70 manuscripts, several editions, and the ancient versions add kol, "all," as in Psa 14:1-7. Psa 94:8; Isa 27:11; Jer 4:22; Matt. 23:17-39 who eat: Psa 27:2; Jer 10:25; Rev 17:16 Psalms 53:5”

“Here in the first line the word כּל־, which, as in Psa 5:6; Psa 6:9, is in its right place, is wanting. In Psa 14:1-7 there then follow, instead of two tristichs, two distichs, which are perhaps each mutilated by the loss of a line. The writer who has retouched the Psalm has restored the tristichic symmetry that had been lost sight of, but he has adopted rather violent means: inasmuch as he has fused down the two distichs into a single tristich, which is as closely as possible adapted to the sound of their letters. Psalms 53:5”