Proverbs 4:17 Cross References - NSB

¹⁷ They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

⁵ »Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their toil. They search in the wasteland food for their young. ⁶ »They reap in a field not their own and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

⁴ Are all the workers of wickedness, those who devour my people as if they were devouring food, so ignorant that they do not call on Jehovah?

¹⁷ »Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.«

¹⁷ Bread taken by deceit tastes sweet to a man. Afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel.

²⁶ »Wicked men are found among my people. They lie in ambush like bird catchers. They set traps and catch men. ²⁷ »Like cages filled with birds, their houses are filled with deceit. That is why they become powerful and rich. ²⁸ »They grow big and fat. Their evil deeds have no limits. They have no respect for the rights of others. They have no respect for the rights of orphans. But they still prosper. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

²⁵ ‘»There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives. They have taken treasure and precious things. They have made many widows in the midst of her. ²⁶ ‘»Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the profane. They have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean. They hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. ²⁷ ‘»Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain. ²⁸ ‘»Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them. They see false visions and divine lies for them. They say: »This is what the Lord Jehovah says, when Jehovah has not spoken.« ²⁹ ‘»The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.’

⁴ »Hear this, you who would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail. ⁵ »You say: When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit. ⁶ »We may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

⁵ Jehovah spoke concerning the prophets: »They make my people stray. They bite with their teeth and cry, »Peace,« but receive nothing in their mouths. They declare holy war on him.

¹² The rich men are full of violence! Her inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

³ Her princes (rulers) within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morning.

¹³ »Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You close the kingdom of heaven to people. You do not invite others to enter nor do you enter.

⁴ Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts. ⁵ You lived in luxury on the earth, and take your pleasure; you nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.