Proverbs 9:17
Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
In Context
16Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:
Cross References
2 Kings 5:24When he came to the hill, he took them from their hands, and put them away in the house; and he sent the men away, and they went.
Proverbs 7:20He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
Proverbs 23:31Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:
Romans 7:8But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
James 1:14But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:14-18
The Invitation of Folly. 13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. 14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, 15 To call passengers who go right on their ways: 16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. We have heard what… Read the whole commentary →