Proverbs 4:17

The Right Path

¹⁶ For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble. ¹⁷ For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink. ¹⁸ And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,

Bread of Wickedness

Drink the Wine

Drink Wine

Job 24:5-6

Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

Psalm 14:4

Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

Proverbs 9:17

'Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.'

Proverbs 20:17

Sweet to a man is the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled with gravel.

Jeremiah 5:26-28

For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

Ezekiel 22:25-29

A conspiracy of its prophets is in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

Micah 3:5

Thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets Who are causing My people to err, Who are biting with their teeth, And have cried 'Peace,' And he who doth not give unto their mouth, They have sanctified against him war.

Micah 6:12

Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her heads in her midst are roaring lions, Her judges are evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.

Matthew 23:13

'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

James 5:4-5

lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;