Proverbs 20:17
Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
In Context
18Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Job 20:14yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
Proverbs 9:17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Hebrews 11:25He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
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 →