Proverbs 4:17 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 4:17

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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17 verses on the floor

Proverbs 9:17
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Micah 6:12
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
James 5:4–5
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

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); they not only care not what hurt they do to those that stand in their way, but it is their business to do mischief, and their delight, purely for mischief-sake. They are continually designing and endeavouring to cause some to fall, to ruin them body and soul. Wickedness and malice are in their nature, and violence is in all their actions.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

18 ) and they will ruin thee if thou dost not." 2. "Consider the character of the way itself which thou art warned to shun, compared with the right way which thou art invited to walk in." (1.) The way of righteousness is light (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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