Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 14:3

"They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one." — Psalms 14:3 (ASV)

Filthy. —Better, corrupt or putrid. Compare the Roman satirist’s description of his age:

“Nothing is left, nothing for future times
To add to the full catalogue of crimes.
The baffled sons must feel the same desires
And act the same mad follies as their sires.
Vice has attained its zenith.”—JUVENAL: Satire 1.

Between Psalms 14:3-4, the Alexandrian manuscript of the Septuagint, followed by the Vulgate, the English Prayer-book version, and the Arabic, insert from Romans 3:13-18 the passage beginning, Their throat is an open sepulchre. The fact that these verses—which are really a cento from various psalms and Isaiah—follow immediately on the quotation of Psalms 14:2-3, led the copyist to this insertion. (See the note in the New Testament Commentary on Romans 3:13.)