John Calvin Commentary Psalms 94:7

"And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider." — Psalms 94:7 (ASV)

And they have said, God shall not see. When the Psalmist speaks of the wicked as taunting God with blindness and ignorance, we are not to think of them as literally entertaining this idea about Him in their hearts; rather, they despise His judgments as much as if He took no cognizance of human affairs.

If the truth were engraved on people's hearts that they cannot elude God's eye, this would serve as a check and restraint on their conduct. When they proceed to such audacity in wickedness as to commit violence against their fellow human beings, to rob, and to destroy, it shows that they have fallen into a state of brutish security, in which they virtually consider themselves hidden from the Almighty's view.

This security, at least, sufficiently proves that they act as if they never expected to be called to account for their conduct.

Although they may not be guilty of the gross blasphemy of asserting in so many words that God is ignorant of what happens in the world—a mere nothing in the universe—the Psalmist very properly charges them with denying God’s providential government. Indeed, they are openly stripping Him of the power and function of judge and governor.

For if they were truly persuaded, as they should be, of His superintending providence, they would honor Him by feeling a reverential fear—as I have observed elsewhere at greater length.

He intends to describe the lowest and most abandoned stage of depravity, in which the sinner casts off the fear of God and rushes into every excess. Such infatuated conduct would have been inexcusable even in heathens, who had never heard of a divine revelation; but it was monstrous for those who had been brought up from infancy in the knowledge of the Word to show such mockery and contempt of God.