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Proverbs 4:17 Cross-References
Explore 12 cross-references for Proverbs 4:17 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Proverbs chapter 4 verse 17 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.”
Proverbs 4:17 (KJV)
Commentary on Proverbs 4:17
The wicked eat wickedness like bread and drink violence like wine - it sustains them. The Hebrew 'lechem' (bread) and 'yayin' (wine) are basic sustenance. What should horrify them has become their nourishment. Moral inversion is complete: they feast on what should starve them. This illustrates total depravity - not that humans are as evil as possible, but that sin pervades every aspect of life when given full reign.
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Proverbs 4:17
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“but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.”
“who eat up my people as they eat bread”
“Stolen waters are sweet”
“the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields”
“her inhabitants speak lies”
“Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.”
“as wild donkeys in the desert”
“like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst of it.”
“as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap”
“they proclaim”