Proverbs 9:17
“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
World Messianic Bible
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.” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
18But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Cross References
2 Kings 5:24When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.
Proverbs 7:20He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
Proverbs 23:31Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
Romans 7:8But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
James 1:14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
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 →