Verse 17

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

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For de spiser ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For de eter ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• Norsk King James

  For de spiser urettens brød og drikker vold.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  De spiser ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For de spiser ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For de spiser ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For de spiser ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For de spiser ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For de spiser ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Proverbs.4.17", "source": "כִּ֣י לָ֭חֲמוּ לֶ֣חֶם רֶ֑שַׁע וְיֵ֖ין חֲמָסִ֣ים יִשְׁתּֽוּ׃", "text": "*kî* *lāḥămû* *leḥem* *rešaʿ* *wəyêyn* *ḥămāsîm* *yištû*", "grammar": { "*kî*": "conjunction - for/because", "*lāḥămû*": "perfect, 3rd person masculine plural, qal - they eat", "*leḥem*": "masculine singular construct noun - bread of", "*rešaʿ*": "masculine singular noun - wickedness", "*wəyêyn*": "conjunction + masculine singular construct noun - and wine of", "*ḥămāsîm*": "masculine plural noun - violence/wrongs", "*yištû*": "imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural, qal - they drink" }, "variants": { "*lāḥămû*": "eat/consume/feed on", "*leḥem*": "bread/food/grain", "*rešaʿ*": "wickedness/evil/wrongdoing", "*ḥămāsîm*": "violence/wrongs/injustice/cruelty", "*yištû*": "drink/imbibe" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For de spiser ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi de æde Ugudeligheds Brød, og drikke Fortrædeligheds Viin.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For de spiser ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For de spiser ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For de spiser ondskapens brød, og drikker voldens vin.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For de spiser ondskapens brød og drikker voldens vin.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Ondskapens brød er deres mat, voldens vin er deres drikk.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For they eate the bred of wickednesse, and drike the wyne of robbery.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For they eate the bread of wickednes, and drinke the wine of robberie.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Referenced Verses

• 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.