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

18 But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that [b]shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

19 The way of the wicked is as the darkness: they know not wherein they shall fall.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:17 Gotten by wicked means and cruel oppression.
  2. Proverbs 4:18 Signifying, that the godly increase daily in knowledge and perfection, till they come to full perfection, which is when they shall be joined to their head in the heavens.

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