Proverbs 4:17

The wicked feed on wickedness and violence as if it were their food and drink. Evil has become their very sustenance.

Cross-references · 12

• Ps 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
• Prov 20:17Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
• Jas 5:4–5Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• Prov 9:17“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
• Mic 6:12Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
• Mic 3:5Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
• Zeph 3:3Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
• Jer 5:26–28For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
• Job 24:5–6Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Ezek 22:25–29There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many within it.
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

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