Proverbs 4:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Proverbs 4:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 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.
Psalms 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.
Matthew 23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, …
Proverbs 9:17
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Topics

Anger Children Cruelty Depravity of Man Guilt Hatred Heart Malice

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-19)

Some make David’s instructions to Solomon, which began Prov. 4:4; to continue to the end of the chapter; nay, some continue them to the end of the ninth chapter; but it is more probable that Solomon begins here again, if not sooner. In these verses, having exhorted us to walk in the paths of wisdom, he cautions us against the path of the wicked. 1. We must take heed of the ways of sin and avoid th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

16-17. The reason is found in the character of sinners, whose zeal to do evil is forcibly depicted (Pr 6:4; Psa 36:5). They live by flagrant vices (Pr 1:13). Some prefer to render, “Their bread is wickedness, their drink violence” (compare Job 15:16; 34:7).