Proverbs 20:17
Bread of falsehood is pleasant to a man; but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel-stones.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
In Context
18Plans are established by counsel; and with wise reflection conduct war.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
Job 20:14His food is thus changed within his bowels, and becometh the venom of asps within him.
Proverbs 9:17“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant.”
Lamentations 3:15He hath sated me with bitter things, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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 →