Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Proverbs 4:17 - King James 2000 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 call not upon the LORD.
A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors feeds on violence.
Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, 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 you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
Thus says the LORD: Concerning the prophets who make my people stray, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts nothing into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a bribe; and the great man, he utters his evil desire: so they weave it together.
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave not a bone till the morning.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither allow you them that are entering to go in.