Proverbs 20:17
The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
In Context
16Take his garment, that is suretie for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.
18Establish the thoughtes by counsell: and by counsell make warre.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, and gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate.
Job 20:14Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.
Proverbs 9:17Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.
Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitternes, and made me drunken with wormewood.
Hebrews 11:25And chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioy the pleasures of sinnes for a season,
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 →