Proverbs 4:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 24:5-6 : 5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children. 6 They reap each one his grain in the field and gather the vintage of the wicked.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?
  • Prov 9:17 : 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
  • Prov 20:17 : 17 Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
  • Jer 5:26-28 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich. 28 They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.
  • Ezek 22:25-29 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in its midst. 26 Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.
  • Jas 5:4-5 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

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    16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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    4 Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?

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    8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he pours out the same; but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall drain and drink.

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    7 The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

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    17 That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.

  • Job 24:6
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    6 They reap each one his grain in the field and gather the vintage of the wicked.

  • Isa 5:22-23
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    22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

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  • Hos 4:8
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    8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

  • Isa 5:11
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    11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

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

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    2 A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

  • Prov 31:5
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  • Job 24:10-11
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  • Amos 5:11
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    5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Mic 2:1-2
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    32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

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    17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

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    19 And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with desolation, that her land may be desolate from all that is in it, because of the violence of all who dwell therein.

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    6 Blessings are upon the head of the just, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

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    8 Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.

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    22 Let their table become a snare before them, and what should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

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

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    2 For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

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    16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

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    25 The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked shall lack.