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Proverbs 4:17

World English Bible

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

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Proverbs 4:17 in other translations

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

Proverbs 4:17 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 4:17 in context

  1. 15Avoid it, and don’t pass by it.
    Turn from it, and pass on.
  2. 16For they don’t sleep unless they do evil.
    Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
  3. 17For they eat the bread of wickedness
    and drink the wine of violence.
  4. 18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light
    that shines more and more until the perfect day.
  5. 19The way of the wicked is like darkness.
    They don’t know what they stumble over.