Proverbs 4:17 meaning and explanation
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 4:17, Berean Standard Bible
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In this verse the speaker, a father instructing his son in wisdom, continues describing the path of the wicked from the previous verses. He pictures evildoers as people whose food and drink are wickedness and violence, meaning that wrongdoing is not an occasional slip but the very substance that sustains them.
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