Proverbs 4:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 24:5-6 : 5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children. 6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
  • Prov 9:17 : 17 Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
  • Prov 20:17 : 17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.
  • Jer 5:26-28 : 26 For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it. 27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth. 28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
  • Ezek 22:25-29 : 25 Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her. 26 Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them. 27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit. 28 And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing. 29 The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit; 6 Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
  • Jas 5:4-5 : 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies. 5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:16
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    16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4 Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

  • Ps 75:8
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    8 For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7 By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

  • Job 24:6
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    6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

  • Isa 5:22-23
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    22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!

    23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

  • Hos 4:8
    75%

    8 The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

  • Isa 5:11
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    11 Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

  • Isa 24:9
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    9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Hos 4:11
    74%

    11 Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

  • Prov 23:20
    74%

    20 Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

  • Ps 53:4
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    4 Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    74%

    15 Their feet are quick in running after blood;

    16 Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

  • Prov 13:2
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    2 A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts.

  • Prov 31:5
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    5 For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

  • Job 24:10-11
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    74%

    10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

    11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • Prov 20:1
    73%

    1 Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

  • Mic 2:1-2
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    1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

    2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15 A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!

  • Hos 4:2
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    2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

  • Deut 32:32-33
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    32 For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:

    33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.

  • Isa 59:7
    72%

    7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

  • Rev 16:6
    72%

    6 For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    72%

    7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

  • Amos 2:8
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    8 By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.

  • Prov 9:17
    72%

    17 Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.

  • Ps 37:14
    72%

    14 The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

  • Ezek 12:19
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    19 And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    72%

    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • Prov 10:6
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    6 Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.

  • Job 4:8
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    8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

  • Ps 69:22
    72%

    22 Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

  • Hos 7:14
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    14 And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

  • Isa 28:7
    72%

    7 And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

  • Prov 9:5
    72%

    5 Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2 For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

  • Job 24:18
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    18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

  • Job 15:16
    72%

    16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

  • Prov 13:25
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    25 The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.