Proverbes 4:17

17 Car ils mangent le pain de la méchanceté, et ils boivent le vin de la violence.

Proverbes 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.

Proverbes 4:17 In-Context

15 Détourne-t'en, ne passe point par là; écarte-toi, et passe outre.

16 Car ils ne dormiraient pas, s'ils n'avaient fait quelque mal, et le sommeil leur serait ôté, s'ils n'avaient fait tomber personne.

17 Car ils mangent le pain de la méchanceté, et ils boivent le vin de la violence.

18 Mais le sentier des justes est comme la lumière resplendissante, dont l'éclat augmente jusques à ce que le jour soit dans sa perfection.

19 La voie des méchants est comme l'obscurité; ils ne voient point ce qui les fera tomber.