Proverbs 20:17
A man liketh the bread that is gotten with deceipt: but at the last his mouth shalbe filled with grauell.
Bible (Bishops')
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 suretie for a straunger: and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6And so the woman, seing that the same tree was good to eate of, and pleasaunt to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, toke of the fruite therof, and dyd eate, and gaue also vnto her husbande beyng with her, and he dyd eate.
Proverbs 9:17Stolen waters are sweete, & the bread that is priuily eaten, hath a good taste.
Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke.
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 →