Proverbs 4:17

American Standard Version (1901)

For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 24:5-6 : 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness [yieldeth] them bread for their children. 6 They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
  • Prov 9:17 : 17 Stolen waters are sweet, And bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
  • Prov 20:17 : 17 Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
  • Jer 5:26-28 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich. 28 They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
  • Ezek 22:25-29 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst thereof. 26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered [mortar], seeing false visions, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. [
  • Jas 5:4-5 : 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?

  • Ps 75:8
    76%

    8For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine foameth; It is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: Surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, Because they refuse to do justice.

  • Ezek 4:17
    75%

    17that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

  • Job 24:6
    75%

    6They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

  • Isa 5:22-23
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    22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;

    23that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

  • Hos 4:8
    75%

    8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

  • Isa 5:11
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    11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!

  • Isa 24:9
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    9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

  • Hos 4:11
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    11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.

  • Prov 23:20
    74%

    20Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

  • Ps 53:4
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    4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon God?

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    74%

    15Their feet are swift to shed blood;

    16Destruction and misery are in their ways;

  • Prov 13:2
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    2A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; But the soul of the treacherous [shall eat] violence.

  • Prov 31:5
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    5Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice [due] to any that is afflicted.

  • Job 24:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10[ So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

    11They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

  • Prov 20:1
    73%

    1Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

  • Joel 1:5
    73%

    5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Mic 2:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

    2And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Hab 2:15
    73%

    15Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, [to thee] that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

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    2There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

  • Deut 32:32-33
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    32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:

    33Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

  • Rev 16:6
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    6for they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: they are worthy.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    72%

    7For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

  • Amos 2:8
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    8and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.

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    17Stolen waters are sweet, And bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

  • Ezek 12:19
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    19and say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

  • Prov 10:6
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    6Blessings are upon the head of the righteous; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

  • Job 4:8
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    8According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same.

  • Ps 69:22
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    22Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, [let it become] a trap.

  • Hos 7:14
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    14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and new wine; they rebel against me.

  • Isa 28:7
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    7And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • Prov 9:5
    72%

    5Come, eat ye of my bread, And drink of the wine which I have mingled.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

  • Job 24:18
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    18Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

  • Job 15:16
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    16How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

  • Prov 13:25
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    25The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul; But the belly of the wicked shall want.