Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
BSB
ASV
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
KJV
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 9:17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
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Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
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Psalms 14:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
leads to
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished…
They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
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Proverbs 20:17Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
leads to
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes,…
“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
