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OET-LV If/because they_eat [the]_bread of_wickedness and_wine of_violence(s) they_drink.
UHB כִּ֣י לָ֭חֲמוּ לֶ֣חֶם רֶ֑שַׁע וְיֵ֖ין חֲמָסִ֣ים יִשְׁתּֽוּ׃ ‡
(kiy lāḩₐmū leḩem reshaˊ vəyēyn ḩₐmāşim yishttū.)
Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT For they eat the bread of wickedness
⇔ and the wine of violent acts they drink.
UST Do not act wickedly because evil people do wicked things as if they were eating food;
⇔ they violently hurt others as if they were drinking wine.
BSB For they eat the bread of wickedness
⇔ and drink the wine of violence.
OEB For the bread that they eat is won by crime,
⇔ and the wine that they drink is procured by cruelty.
WEB For they eat the bread of wickedness
⇔ and drink the wine of violence.
WMB (Same as above)
NET For they eat bread gained from wickedness
⇔ and drink wine obtained from violence.
LSV For they have eaten bread of wickedness,
And they drink wine of violence.
FBV For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
T4T What they eat and what they drink are things that they have obtained by acting wickedly and violently.”
LEB • and they drank the wine of violence.
BBE The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
MOF No MOF PRO book available
JPS For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
ASV For they eat the bread of wickedness,
⇔ And drink the wine of violence.
DRA They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.
YLT For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
DBY For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
RV For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
WBS For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
KJB-1769 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
KJB-1611 No KJB-1611 PRO book available
BB For they eate the bread of wickednes, and drinke the wine of robberie.
(For they eat the bread of wickednes, and drink the wine of robberie.)
GNV For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.
(For they eat the breade of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. )
CB For they eate the bred of wickednesse, and drike the wyne of robbery.
(For they eat the bred of wickedness, and drike the wyne of robbery.)
WYC Thei eten the breed of vnpite, and drinken the wyn of wickidnesse.
(They eten the breed of unpite, and drinkn the wyn of wickednesse.)
LUT Denn sie nähren sich von gottlosem Brot und trinken vom Wein des Frevels.
(Because they/she/them nähren itself/yourself/themselves from gottlosem bread and drink from_the wine the Frevels.)
CLV Comedunt panem impietatis, et vinum iniquitatis bibunt.[fn]
(Comedunt panem impietatis, and vinum iniquitatis bibunt. )
4.17 Comedunt panem impietatis. In actione scelerum, etc., usque ad testatur Scriptura.
4.17 Comedunt panem impietatis. In actione scelerum, etc., usque to testatur Scriptura.
BRN For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.
BrLXX Οἵδε γὰρ σιτοῦνται σῖτα ἀσεβείας, οἴνῳ δὲ παρανόμῳ μεθύσκονται.
(Hoide gar sitountai sita asebeias, oinōi de paranomōi methuskontai. )
4:17 To eat . . . wickedness and drink . . . violence means that those attributes are at the very center of someone’s life. Just as we eat and drink to stay alive, evil people sustain themselves by committing evil acts.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
כִּ֣י
that/for/because/then/when
For here indicates that what follows are more reasons why someone should avoid doing evil, as commanded in 4:15. Use a connector in your language that makes it clear that what follows is a reason for what came before. Alternate translation: “Avoid being one who acts wickedly, because”
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
לָ֭חֲמוּ & יִשְׁתּֽוּ
eat & drink
In this verse, the pronoun they refers to the wicked people mentioned in 4:14. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “wicked ones eat … wicked ones drink”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
לָ֭חֲמוּ לֶ֣חֶם רֶ֑שַׁע וְיֵ֖ין חֲמָסִ֣ים יִשְׁתּֽוּ
eat food/grain/bread wickedness and=wine violence drink
These two clauses could mean: (1) these wicked people do acts of wickedness and violence as regularly as they eat bread and drink wine. Alternate translation: “wickedness is like the bread that they eat and violence is like the wine that they drink” or (2) these wicked people do acts of wickedness and violence in order to get their bread and wine. Alternate translation: “they eat bread that they obtain by doing wicked things and they drink wine that they obtain through violent acts”