Proverbs 4:17
For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
In Context
16For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.
Cross References
Job 24:5And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to his little ones.
Proverbs 9:17Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.
Isaiah 5:18Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke:
Jeremiah 5:26For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.
Ezekiel 22:25whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and thy widows are multiplied in the midst of thee.
Micah 3:5Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that lead my people astray, that bite with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and when nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:15-20
Cautions against Bad Company. 14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. 18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at… Read the whole commentary →