Proverbs 9:17
Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
In Context
16He that is a little one, let him turn to me. And to the fool she said:
18And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Cross References
2 Kings 5:24And when he was come, and now it was the evening, he took them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and sent the men away, and they departed.
Proverbs 7:20He took with him a bag of money: he will return home the day of the full moon.
Proverbs 23:31Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,
Romans 7:8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. Sin taking occasion... Sin, or concupiscence, which is called sin, because it is from sin, and leads to sin, which was asleep before, was weakened by the prohibition: the law not being the cause thereof, nor properly giving occasion to it: but occasion being taken by our corrupt nature to resist the commandment laid upon us.
James 1:14But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.
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 →