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Proverbs 4:17

What does Proverbs 4:17 mean?

A plain-English look at Proverbs 4:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

v.17This passage

v.18But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Amos 8:4

    Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • Proverbs 20:17

    Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

  • James 5:4

    Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

  • Proverbs 9:17

    Stolen waters are sweet, And breadeatenin secret is pleasant.

  • Jeremiah 5:26

    For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • Psalms 14:4

    Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my peopleasthey eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?

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