Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen water is sweet. 2 Food eaten in secret is pleasant.” 1

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” 2 As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him, 1

18But he does not know that the departed spirits are there, 2 that her guests are in the depths of Sheol ·Place of the dead·.

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Cross References

Proverbs 7:20He has taken a bag of money with him. 2 He will come home at the full moon.” 1

Proverbs 23:31Don’t look at the wine when it is red, 2 when it sparkles in the cup, 2 when it goes down smoothly. 1

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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