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Proverbs 4:17

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

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Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.


Do all these evildoers know nothing? Those who eat up my people like they eat bread, and never call on YHWH?


“Woe to y’all, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Y’all keep shutting humans out of the Empire of Heaven. For y’all do not enter it, but neither to do allow others to enter.


Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.


YHWH says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray—for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:


Fraudulent food is sweet to a person, but afterwards their mouth is filled with gravel.


“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”


From the fruit of their mouth, a person will enjoy good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.


Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.


Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,


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!


“Y’all must be on guard against your* neighbor, and y’all cannot trust in any relatives; for every relative will cheat-cheat, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.





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