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Prov. 4:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Prov. 9:17• ¹⁷Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. (Prov. 9:17)

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Prov. 20:17• ¹⁷Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. (Prov. 20:17)

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Job 24:5‑6• ⁵Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
⁶They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. (Job 24:5‑6)

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Psa. 14:4• ⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord. (Psa. 14:4)

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Jer. 5:26‑28• ²⁶For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
²⁷As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
²⁸They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. (Jer. 5:26‑28)

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Ezek. 22:25‑29• ²⁵There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
²⁶Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
²⁷Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
²⁸And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken.
²⁹The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:25‑29)

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Amos 8:4‑6• ⁴Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
⁵Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
⁶That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? (Amos 8:4‑6)

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Mic. 3:5• ⁵Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him. (Mic. 3:5)

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Mic. 6:12• ¹²For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. (Mic. 6:12)

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Zeph. 3:3• ³Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. (Zeph. 3:3)

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Matt. 23:14• ¹⁴Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. (Matt. 23:14)

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James 5:4‑5• ⁴Behold, the hire of the laborers 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.
⁵Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. (James 5:4‑5)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "violences."