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Brenton's Septuagint
Proverbs 4:17
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They eat the bread of wickednessand drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
They feast on wickedness and cruelty as if they were eating bread and drinking wine.
For they eat bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness And drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickednessAnd drink the wine of violence.
since they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Their food and drink are violence and cruelty.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Evil and violence are their food and drink.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Wickedness and violence are like food and drink to them.
For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
For they eate the bred of wickednesse, and drike the wyne of robbery.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
For they eate the bread of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.
For they eate the bread of wickednes, and drinke the wine of robberie.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Thei eten the breed of vnpite, and drinken the wyn of wickidnesse.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
They eat the food of wickedness and drink the wine of violence!
For they eat the bread of sin, and drink the wine of wrong-doing.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
For they consume bread gotten by lawlessness, and, wine obtained by violence, they drink.
They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
For they eat the bread of wickedness And drink the wine of violence.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 9:17, Proverbs 20:17, Job 24:5, Job 24:6, Psalms 14:4, Jeremiah 5:26-28, Ezekiel 22:25-29, Amos 8:4-6, Micah 3:5, Micah 6:12, Zephaniah 3:3, Matthew 23:14, James 5:4, James 5:5
Reciprocal: Genesis 27:42 - comfort himself 1 Samuel 20:24 - the king 1 Kings 21:15 - Arise Job 34:7 - General Psalms 73:6 - violence Proverbs 13:2 - the soul Isaiah 57:20 - like Micah 7:3 - do
Cross-References
And Abel also brought of the first born of his sheep and of his fatlings, and God looked upon Abel and his gifts,
And now thou art cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand.
And Jared lived an hundred and sixty and two years, and begot Enoch:
And Enoch was well-pleasing to God after his begetting Mathusala, two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.
And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Now Abessalom while yet alive had taken and set up for himself the pillar near which he was taken, and set it up so as to have the pillar in the king’s dale; for he said he had no son to keep his name in remembrance: and he called the pillar, Abessalom’s hand, until this day.
And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, even their tabernacles to all generations: they have called their lands after their own names.
In the same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor: and he was driven forth from men, and he ate grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hairs were grown like lions’ hairs, and his nails as birds’ claws.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness,.... Either that is gotten by wicked and unlawful means, or wickedness itself is bread unto them; it is that to their minds as bread is to their bodies; they feed upon it with as much eagerness, appetite, gust, and pleasure; it is a sweet morsel to them; it is meat, drink, sleep, and everything to them; they take the highest satisfaction and the utmost delight in it;
and drink the wine of violence: either that which is obtained by rapine and violence; or they as greedily commit such acts of oppression and injury as a man drinks a glass of wine; they do not drink up iniquity like water only, but even like wine, the most generous and delicious. Wherefore all society with such men should be avoided.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:1-10; Psalms 37:0.
Proverbs 4:7
Or, “The beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.” To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.
Proverbs 4:12
The ever-recurring parable of the journey of life. In the way of wisdom the path is clear and open, obstacles disappear; in the quickest activity (“when thou runnest”) there is no risk of falling.
Proverbs 4:13
She is thy life - Another parallel between personified Wisdom in this book and the Incarnate Wisdom in John 1:4.
Proverbs 4:16
A fearful stage of debasement. Sin is the condition without which there can be no repose.
Proverbs 4:17
i. e., Bread and wine gained by unjust deeds. Compare Amos 2:8. A less probable interpretation is, “They eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.” Compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7.
Proverbs 4:18
Shining ... shineth - The two Hebrew words are different; the first having the sense of bright or clear. The beauty of a cloudless sunshine growing on, shining as it goes, to the full and perfect day, is chosen as the fittest figure of the ever increasing brightness of the good man’s life. Compare the marginal reference.
Proverbs 4:19
Compare our Lord’s teaching John 11:10; John 12:35.
Proverbs 4:20
The teacher speaks again in his own person.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 4:17. For they eat the bread of wickedness — By privately stealing.
And drink the wine of violence. — By highway robbery.
