Proverbs 9:17

Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

In Context

16saying, Whoso is most senseless of you, let him turn aside to me; and I exhort those that lack prudence, saying,

18But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell. But hasten away, delay not in the place, neither fix your eye upon her: for thus shall you go through strange water; but do you abstain from strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain, that you may live long, and years of life may be added to you.

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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 you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall 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 →

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