Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Context
This verse from Proverbs Chapter 4 connects to 10 cross-references. The father recalls his own father's instruction urging him to get wisdom above all else and cherish her so she will protect him. He contrasts the path of the righteous, which shines brighter until full day, with the way of …
Other Translations
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
Cross References
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness …
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not …
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, …
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the …
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have …
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they …
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,