Proverbs 20:17
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
In Context
18Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!
Cross References
Genesis 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
Job 20:14yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
Proverbs 9:17“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
Hebrews 11:25choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
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 →