Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on the LORD?
Proverbs 4:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For they eat the bread of wickedness, 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, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on the LORD?
By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
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!
Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, *Shalom!* and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.