Proverbs 4:17

World English Bible (2000)

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 donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children. 6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard 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 don't call on Yahweh?
  • Prov 9:17 : 17 "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
  • Prov 20:17 : 17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is 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 have become great, and grew rich. 28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.
  • 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 take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst. 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 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, that they may get dishonest gain. 28 Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who desire to 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 market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, 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 sweepings with the wheat?'"
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
  • Jas 5:4-5 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

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  • Prov 4:16
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    16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?

  • Ps 75:8
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    8 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

  • Job 24:6
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    6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Isa 5:22-23
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    22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

    23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

  • Hos 4:8
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    8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart 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 stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

  • Isa 24:9
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    9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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

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    11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

  • Prov 23:20
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    20 Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

  • Ps 53:4
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    4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.

    16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.

  • Prov 13:2
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    2 By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.

  • Prov 31:5
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    5 lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

  • Job 24:10-11
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    10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

    11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

  • Prov 20:1
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    1 Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

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

  • Mic 2:1-2
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    1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

    2 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
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    15 "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

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    2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

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    19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

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

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

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    7 Their 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.

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    6 For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."

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    7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

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    8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

  • Prov 9:17
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    17 "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."

  • Ps 37:14
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    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Ezek 12:19
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    19 and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh 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 those who dwell therein.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • Prov 10:6
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    6 Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

  • Job 4:8
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    8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

  • Ps 69:22
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    22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

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    14 They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

  • Isa 28:7
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    7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

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    5 "Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

  • Prov 24:2
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    2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

  • Job 24:18
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    18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

  • Job 15:16
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    16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

  • Prov 13:25
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    25 The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.