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17 The bread of wickedness is their food,
    and the wine of violence is their drink.[a]
18 The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
    which increases in brightness to the fullness of day.
19 But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness,[b]
    and they cannot even see what they have stumbled over.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:17 Evildoers are totally committed to wickedness and violence (see Prov 13:2; Job 15:16).
  2. Proverbs 4:19 Deep darkness: a path that leads to destruction (see note on Prov 2:13; see also Isa 59:9-10; Jer 23:12; Jn 11:10; 12:35).