Proverbs 4:17

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Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

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  • Job 24:5-6 : 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children. 6 They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 All those who behave wickedly do not understand– those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the LORD.
  • Prov 9:17 : 17 “Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!”
  • Prov 20:17 : 17 Bread gained by deceit tastes sweet to a person, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
  • Jer 5:26-28 : 26 “Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people. 27 Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful. 28 That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.
  • Ezek 22:25-29 : 25 Her princes within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows within it. 26 Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst. 27 Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey– shedding blood and destroying lives– so they can get dishonest profit. 28 Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken. 29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land. 5 You say,“When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We’re eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales! 6 We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 This is what the LORD has said about the prophets who mislead my people,“If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 The city’s wealthy people readily resort to violence; her inhabitants tell lies, their tongues speak deceptive words.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 “But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
  • Jas 5:4-5 : 4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 5 You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

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  • 16 For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • 4 All those who behave wickedly do not understand– those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the LORD.

  • 8 For the LORD holds in his hand a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices, and pours it out. Surely all the wicked of the earth will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.”

  • 7 The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they have refused to do what is right.

  • 17 because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

  • 6 They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Isa 5:22-23
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    22 Beware, those who are champions at drinking, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.

    23 They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

  • 8 They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!

  • 11 Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

  • 9 They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

  • 16 for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

  • 10 Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

  • 11 Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.

  • 20 Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,

  • 4 All those who behave wickedly do not understand– those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to God.

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood,

    16 ruin and misery are in their paths,

  • 2 From the fruit of his speech a person eats good things, but the treacherous desire the fruit of violence.

  • 5 lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

  • Job 24:10-11
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    10 They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

    11 They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • 1 Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.

  • 11 Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

  • 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.

  • Mic 2:1-2
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    1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

    2 They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

  • 15 “Woe to you who force your neighbor to drink wine– you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their naked bodies.

  • 2 There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

  • 19 The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

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    32 For their vine is from the stock of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes contain venom, their clusters of grapes are bitter.

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

  • 7 They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

  • 6 because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets, so you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!”

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

  • 8 They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!

  • 17 “Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!”

  • 14 Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

  • 19 Then say to the people of the land,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.

  • 4 So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

  • 6 Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the speech of the wicked conceals violence.

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

  • 22 May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

  • 14 They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.

  • 7 Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer– priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.

  • 5 “Come, eat some of my food, and drink some of the wine I have mixed.

  • 2 for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.

  • 18 “You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

  • 16 how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

  • 25 The righteous has enough food to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked will be empty.