5. Instead of assurances of God's presence with the pious, and a complaint of the wicked, Ps 14:5, 6 portrays the ruin of the latter, whose "bones" even "are scattered" (compare Ps 141:7), and who are put to shame as contemptuously rejected of God.

     1. A bad conscience makes men timid; the righteous are alone truly bold (Pr 14:26; Ps 27:1).