Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 4:17
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Proverbs4:17
17. For they eat the bread of wickedness , and drink the wine of violence .
The sense is either, 1. Wickedness is as necessary and as pleasant to them as their Bread. Which suits well with the former Verse. Or, 2. They live wholly upon what they get by wicked courses. Which gives the reason of what he last said, why they could not sleep without prey.
i. e. Gotten by violence. See on the former Clause.
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