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Proverbs 4:17

NETBible	For they eat bread¹ gained from wickedness² and drink wine obtained from violence.³
NIV © biblegateway Pro 4:17	They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 4:17	For they eat the bread of wickedness And drink the wine of violence.
NLT © biblegateway Pro 4:17	They eat wickedness and drink violence!
MSG © biblegateway Pro 4:17	Perversity is their food and drink, violence their drug of choice.
BBE © SABDAweb Pro 4:17	The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
NRSV © bibleoremus Pro 4:17	For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
NKJV © biblegateway Pro 4:17	For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
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KJV	For they eat <03898> (8804) the bread <03899> of wickedness <07562>_, and drink <08354> (8799) the wine <03196> of violence <02555>_.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 4:17	For they eat <03898> the bread <03899> of wickedness <07562> And drink <08354> the wine <03196> of violence <02555> .
LXXM	oide <3592> D-NPM gar <1063> PRT sitountai {V-PMI-3P} sita <4621> N-APN asebeiav <763> N-GSF oinw <3631> N-DSM de <1161> PRT paranomw {A-DSM} meyuskontai <3184> V-PMI-3P
NET [draft] ITL	For <03588> they eat <03898> bread <03899> gained from wickedness <07562> and drink <08354> wine <03196> obtained from violence <02555> .
HEBREW	wtsy <08354> Myomx <02555> Nyyw <03196> esr <07562> Mxl <03899> wmxl <03898> yk (4:17) <03588>

NETBible

For they eat bread¹ gained from wickedness² and drink wine obtained from violence.³

NET Notes

¹tn The noun is a cognate accusative stressing that they consume wickedness.

²tn Heb “the bread of wickedness” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV). There are two ways to take the genitives: (1) genitives of apposition: wickedness and violence are their food and drink (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT), or (2) genitives of source: they derive their livelihood from the evil they do (C. H. Toy, Proverbs [ICC], 93).

³tn Heb “the wine of violence” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV). This is a genitive of source, meaning that the wine they drink was plundered from their violent crime. The Hebrew is structured in an AB:BA chiasm: “For they eat the bread of wickedness, and the wine of violence they drink.” The word order in the translation is reversed for the sake of smoothness and readability.