17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.


In Context

14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.

15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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

18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

Proverbs 4:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:17They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:17They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.