KJV King James Version
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
WEB World English Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
ASV American Standard Version
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 4
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men].
15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
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Proverbs 20:17Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.James 5:4-5Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.Proverbs 9:17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.Psalm 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.Micah 6:12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.Jeremiah 5:26-28For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.Zephaniah 3:3Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.Job 24:5-6Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.Amos 8:4-6Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,Micah 3:5Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.Matthew 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.Ezekiel 22:25-29[There is] a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
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