Proverbi 4:17

17 Conciossiachè mangino il pane dell’empietà, E bevano il vino delle violenze.

Proverbi 4:17 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness
Either that is gotten by wicked and unlawful means, or wickedness itself is bread unto them; it is that to their minds as bread is to their bodies; they feed upon it with as much eagerness, appetite, gust, and pleasure; it is a sweet morsel to them; it is meat, drink, sleep, and everything to them; they take the highest satisfaction and the utmost delight in it; and drink the wine of violence:
either that which is obtained by rapine and violence; or they as greedily commit such acts of oppression and injury as a man drinks a glass of wine; they do not drink up iniquity like water only, but even like wine, the most generous and delicious. Wherefore all society with such men should be avoided.

Proverbi 4:17 In-Context

15 Schifala, non passar per essa; Stornatene, e passa oltre.

16 Perciocchè essi non possono dormire, se non hanno fatto qualche male; E il sonno s’invola loro, se non hanno fatto cader qualcuno.

17 Conciossiachè mangino il pane dell’empietà, E bevano il vino delle violenze.

18 Ma il sentiero de’ giusti è come la luce che spunta, La quale va vie più risplendendo, finchè sia chiaro giorno.

19 La via degli empi è come una caligine; Essi non sanno in che incappano.