Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord?
Proverbs 4:17 - Revised Standard Version For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. American Standard Version (1901) For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence. Common English Bible They eat the bread of evil, and they drink the wine of violence. Catholic Public Domain Version They eat the bread of impiety, and they drink the wine of iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity. |
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord?
From the fruit of his mouth a good man eats good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.
Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Let every one beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother; for every brother is a supplanter, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.
Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.