John Trapp on Psalms 14:4

Verſ. 4. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?] No, not ſo much as Pilates Wife had in a Dream; for elſe they would take heed of having any thing to do with thoſe juſtmen. But they are workers of iniquity, habituated and hardned in cruelty, fleſhed in bloud; and having an hoof upon their hearts, ſo that they are Maſters of their Conſciences, and have taken a courſe with them. In this queſtion here asked, the Pſalmiſt doth not ſo much quaerere, as queri, ask, as chide, and complain.

Who eat up my people as they eat bread] That is, quotid'e, daily, ſaith Auſtin; as duly as they eat bread; or, with the ſame eagerneſs and voracity. Theſe mancaters, theſe [non-Latin text not transcribed], cruel Cannibals, make no more conſcience to undoe a poor man, than to eat a good meal when they are hungty. Like Pickerels in a Pond, or Sharks in the Sea, they devour the poorer, as thoſe do the leſſer Fiſhes; and that many times with a plauſible inviſible conſumption; as the Uſurer, who like the Oſtrich can digeſt any metal; but eſpecially mony.

They call not upon the Lord] viz. for a bleſſing upon that their bread, as ſome ſenſe it; how ſhould they, ſith God abhorreth them? Pſal. 10.3. But better take it for neglect of the duty of Prayer; they rob God of his inward and outward Worſhip, and ſo deal worſe with him than Idolaters do with their Dunghildeities, whom they ceaſe not to call upon. Theſe will commit no Soleciſm in Gods Service; and be ſure that their prayer (like that of Hamaus, Eſth. 7.7.) ſhall never be turned into ſin. If they pray in extreamity (as then a Joah will lay hold on the Horns of the Altar) it is but as blinde Beggers are forced to ask, though they know not of whom.