Proverbs 4:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

New Living Translation
They eat the food of wickedness and drink the wine of violence!

English Standard Version
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Berean Study Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

New American Standard Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

NASB 1995
For they eat the bread of wickedness And drink the wine of violence.

NASB 1977
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

Amplified Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness And drink the wine of violence.

Christian Standard Bible
They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Contemporary English Version
Their food and drink are cruelty and wickedness.

Good News Translation
Wickedness and violence are like food and drink to them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They eat food obtained through wrongdoing and drink wine obtained through violence.

International Standard Version
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and they drink the wine of violence.

NET Bible
For they eat bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

New King James Version
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

King James 2000 Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

New Heart English Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

World English Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

American King James Version
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

American Standard Version
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

A Faithful Version
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Darby Bible Translation
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

English Revised Version
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Webster's Bible Translation
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For they eate the bread of wickednes, and drinke the wine of robberie.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For they eate the bred of wickednesse, and drike the wyne of robbery.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For they have eaten bread of wickedness, "" And they drink wine of violence.

Young's Literal Translation
For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

Smith's Literal Translation
For they ate the bread of injustice, and they will drink the wine of violences:

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.

Catholic Public Domain Version
They eat the bread of impiety, and they drink the wine of iniquity.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because their food is the food of evil and they drink the wine of depravity.

Lamsa Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.
















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