Proverbs 9:17
“Stolen waters are sweet, || And hidden bread is pleasant.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
In Context
16“Who [is] simple? Let him turn aside here.” And whoever lacks heart—she said to him,
18And he has not known that Rephaim [are] there, || Her invited ones in deep places of Sheol!
Cross References
2 Kings 5:24and he comes to the high place, and takes [them] out of their hand, and lays [them] up in the house, and sends the men away, and they go.
Proverbs 7:20He has taken a bag of money in his hand, || At the day of the new moon he comes to his house.”
Proverbs 23:31Do not see wine when it shows itself red, || When it gives its color in the cup, || It goes up and down through the upright.
Romans 7:8“You will not covet”; and sin having received an opportunity, through the command, worked in me all covetousness—for apart from law sin is dead.
James 1:14but each one is tempted, being led away and enticed by his own desires;
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 →