For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence - (Job 15:16; Job 34:7.) Not merely wickedness is their bread, and violence their wine (cf. Psalms 42:3; Psalms 53:4, "Who eat up my people as they eat bread;" cf. John 4:34, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me;" Job 23:12); but also they get their livelihood, their bread and wine, by wickedness and violence. No wonder, then, that they cannot sleep except that they have done mischief (Proverbs 4:16; cf. Proverbs 1:12-13; Amos 2:8, "They drink the wine of the condemned").