Psalms 14:4

"Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up people as they eat bread, and call not upon Jehovah?"

The custom of eating bread without calling upon Jehovah was also mentioned by Paul in Romans in Romans 1:21, where the very beginning of mankind's hardening was lodged in their refusal to "Give God thanks." "Knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened."

Yes, this has its application to eating without offering thanks to God, the giver of all gifts. There is no failure in America today that is any more shameful or loaded with any greater potential for ultimate moral disaster for the whole nation than is this simple neglect of thanksgiving for food. The beginning of all wickedness is "eating bread and not calling upon Jehovah," as stated here. Jesus gave thanks for the loaves and fishes that he himself had created; and Paul gave thanks in a storm at sea facing a shipwreck; and there is no excuse whatever for the widespread neglect of such thanksgiving for meals that marks our society today.

Barnes pointed out that in our text, the fact of the sinful people not offering prayer and thanksgiving to God, "Is placed last, as the crowning thing in their depravity."[7] This does not contradict Paul's placing it first as the beginning of depravity, because it is true both ways.