THEOSISProverbs 4:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.
כִּ֣י לָ֭חֲמוּ לֶ֣חֶם רֶ֑שַׁע וְיֵ֖ין חֲמָסִ֣ים יִשְׁתּֽוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Mic 6:12By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.
- Ps 14 (13):4
- Matt 23:13But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you yourselves do not enter in and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.
- Jas 5:4Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
- Jas 5:5You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,
- Amos 8:6That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?
- Jer 5:26For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.