Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
KJV
Comedunt panem impietatis, et vinum iniquitatis bibunt.
Vulgate
οἵδε γὰρ σιτοῦνται σῖτα ἀσεβείας, οἴνῳ δὲ παρανόμῳ μεθύσκονται.
LXX
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
ASV
כִּ֣י לָ֭חֲמוּ לֶ֣חֶם רֶ֑שַׁע וְ/יֵ֖ין חֲמָסִ֣ים יִשְׁתּֽוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הִלָּחֵ֖ם
hlchm
verb · 177×
חָמָ֖ס
chms
noun · 59×
יָ֑יִן
yyn
noun · 139×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֶ֣חֶם
lchm
noun · 297×
רֶ֑שַׁע
rsh'
noun · 30×
שְׁתּ֖וֹת
shtvt
verb · 216×
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Jas 5:4 — Behold, the hire of the labourers 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
- Mic 6:12 — For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
- Prov 9:17 — Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
- Prov 13:2 — A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
- Prov 20:17 — Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- Ps 14:4 — Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.