Proverbs 9:17
“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant.”
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
In Context
16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; and as for him that is void of sense, she saith to him,
Cross References
2 Kings 5:24And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he dismissed the men, and they departed.
Proverbs 7:20The bag of money hath he taken with him, by the day of the new-moon festival only will he come home.”
Proverbs 23:31Do not look on the wine when it looketh red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it glideth down so readily.
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 →