Proverbs 4:17 {18}
Good News Translation
Wickedness and violence are like food and drink to them.

New Revised Standard Version
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Contemporary English Version
Their food and drink are cruelty and wickedness.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day.

Proverbs 9:17 And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Proverbs 20:17 The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Job 24:5,6 Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children. . . .

Psalm 14:4 Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

Jeremiah 5:26-28 For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men. . . .

Ezekiel 22:25-29 There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof: like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst thereof. . . .

Amos 8:4-6 And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place. . . .

Micah 3:5 Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear them: and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved wickedly in their devices.

Micah 6:12 By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

Zephaniah 3:3 Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.

Matthew 23:14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.

James 5:4,5 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. . . .

Context
A Father's Instruction
16They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity. 17But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day.18The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.…
Cross References
Proverbs 13:2
Of the fruit of his own month shall a man be filled with good things: but the soul of transgressors is wicked.

Micah 7:3
The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

Proverbs 4:16
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