Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,\par\tab Who eat up my people {\i as} they eat bread,\par\tab And call not upon Jehovah?
Proverbs 4:17 - American Standard Version 2015 For they eat the bread of wickedness,\par\tab And drink the wine of violence. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,\par\tab Who eat up my people {\i as} they eat bread,\par\tab And call not upon Jehovah?
A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth;\par\tab But the soul of the treacherous {\i shall eat} violence.
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man;\par\tab But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Stolen waters are sweet,\par\tab And bread {\i eaten} in secret is pleasant.
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge {\i is ready} for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.
Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.\par