15 Avoid it, and go not by it: turn from it, and pass by.

16 For they cannot [a]sleep, except they have done evil, and their sleep departeth except they cause some to fall.

17 For they eat the bread of [b]wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:16 Meaning, that to do evil is more proper and natural to the wicked than to sleep, eat or drink.
  2. Proverbs 4:17 Gotten by wicked means and cruel oppression.

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