Proverbs 20:17
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
In Context
16Take his garment that is become surety [for] another, and hold him in pledge for strangers.
18Plans are established by counsel; and with good advice make war.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
Job 20:14His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
Proverbs 9:17Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.
Lamentations 3:15He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
Hebrews 11:25choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have [the] temporary pleasure of sin;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:17
16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. Two sorts of persons are here spoken of that are ruining their own estates, and will be beggars shortly, and therefore are not to be trusted with any good security:—1. Those that will be bound for any body that will ask them, that entangle themselves in rash suretiship to oblige their idle companions; they will break at last, nay, they cannot hold out long; these waste by wholesale. 2. Those that are in league with… Read the whole commentary →