Proverbs 4:17

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They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

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  • Job 24:5-6 : 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children. 6 In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Do all the evildoers not understand? They devour my people as if they were eating bread, but they do not call upon the LORD.
  • Prov 9:17 : 17 Stolen water is sweet, and food eaten in secret is delicious.
  • Prov 20:17 : 17 Food gained by deceit is sweet to a person, but afterward their mouth is full of gravel.
  • Jer 5:26-28 : 26 Among My people are wicked men. They lie in wait like those who set traps; they set deadly snares to catch people. 27 Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Because of this, they have become great and rich. 28 They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.
  • Ezek 22:25-29 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets within her, like a roaring lion that tears its prey; they have devoured lives, seized treasure and precious things, and made many widows within her. 26 Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common or teach the difference between the unclean and the clean. They shut their eyes to my Sabbaths, and so I am profaned among them. 27 Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and destroy lives to make unjust gain. 28 Her prophets plaster false visions for them, prophesying lies and saying, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken. 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land, 5 saying, 'When will the new moon be over, so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath end, so we may market wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the scales with deceit? 6 Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 This is what the LORD says: "As for the prophets who lead my people astray, they proclaim peace when they have something to eat but prepare for war against those who do not feed them.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her officials are roaring lions in her midst; her judges are wolves of the evening, leaving nothing for the morning.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in.
  • Jas 5:4-5 : 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. 5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:16
    85%

    16For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • Ps 14:4
    77%

    4Do all the evildoers not understand? They devour my people as if they were eating bread, but they do not call upon the LORD.

  • Ps 75:8
    76%

    8For God is the judge; he brings one down and lifts another up.

  • Prov 21:7
    75%

    7The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to act justly.

  • Ezek 4:17
    75%

    17'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'

  • Job 24:6
    75%

    6In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Isa 5:22-23
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    75%

    22Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and valiant at mixing strong drink,

    23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deny justice to the righteous!

  • Hos 4:8
    75%

    8They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

  • Isa 5:11
    75%

    11Woe to those who rise early in the morning to chase after strong drink, and who continue into the evening, inflamed by wine.

  • Isa 24:9
    74%

    9They no longer drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

  • Prov 1:16
    74%

    16For their feet run to evil; they hasten to shed blood.

  • Nah 1:10
    74%

    10Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.

  • Hos 4:11
    74%

    11Fornication, wine, and new wine take away the heart and understanding.

  • Prov 23:20
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    20Do not be among heavy drinkers of wine or gluttons of meat.

  • Ps 53:4
    74%

    4All have turned away; together they have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.

  • Rom 3:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Their feet are swift to shed blood.

    16Ruin and misery mark their paths.

  • Prov 13:2
    74%

    2From the fruit of their lips, people enjoy good things, but the appetite of the treacherous desires violence.

  • Prov 31:5
    74%

    5Lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.

  • Job 24:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.

    11They press oil between the rows, they tread the wine presses, yet they go thirsty.

  • Prov 20:1
    73%

    1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

  • Amos 5:11
    73%

    11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

  • Joel 1:5
    73%

    5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the fresh wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Mic 2:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.

    2They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.

  • Hab 2:15
    73%

    15Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor, pouring out your wrath and making him drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

  • Hos 4:2
    73%

    2There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.

  • Deut 32:32-33
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    32Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are poisonous, and their clusters are bitter.

    33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

  • Isa 59:7
    72%

    7Their feet run to do evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; ruin and destruction are in their paths.

  • Rev 16:6
    72%

    6For they shed the blood of your holy people and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
    72%

    7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

  • Amos 2:8
    72%

    8'They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink wine taken as fines.'

  • Prov 9:17
    72%

    17Stolen water is sweet, and food eaten in secret is delicious.

  • Ps 37:14
    72%

    14The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and the needy, to slaughter those whose ways are upright.

  • Ezek 12:19
    72%

    19Say to the people of the land, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in desolation, for their land will be stripped of all it contains because of the violence of all who live there.’

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    72%

    4They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • Prov 10:6
    72%

    6Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

  • Job 4:8
    72%

    8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

  • Ps 69:22
    72%

    22They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

  • Hos 7:14
    72%

    14They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They gather together for grain and new wine but turn away from me.

  • Isa 28:7
    72%

    7But these also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused by wine, they stagger because of strong drink—they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • Prov 9:5
    72%

    5Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.

  • Prov 24:2
    72%

    2For their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

  • Job 24:18
    72%

    18Swift upon the surface of the waters they are; their portion is cursed in the land; they do not turn to the way of the vineyards.

  • Job 15:16
    72%

    16How much less is a man, who is detestable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!

  • Prov 13:25
    72%

    25The righteous eat to their heart's content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry.