Proverbs 9:17
Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
In Context
18d that thou mayest live long, and years of life may be added to thee.
Cross References
2 Kings 5:24And he came to + 5:24 Gr. a dark place, or the dark.a secret place, and took them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and dismissed the men.
Proverbs 7:20having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.
Proverbs 23:31For if thou shouldest set thine eyes on bowls and cups, thou shalt afterwards go more naked than a pestle.
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 →