Proverbs 20:17
The bread of a leasing, that is, gotten by a leasing, is sweet to a man, (or Bread gotten by a lie, tasteth sweet to a person); and afterward his mouth shall be filled with reckoning [or but afterward his mouth shall be filled with little pebble stones].
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 3:6Therefore the woman saw that the tree was good, and sweet to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightable in beholding; and she took of the fruit thereof, and ate, and gave to her husband, and he ate.
Job 20:14His bread in his womb shall be turned into the gall of snakes within him.
Proverbs 9:17Waters of theft be sweeter, and bread hid is sweeter. (Stolen water is sweeter, and hidden bread is sweeter.)
Lamentations 3:15He filled me with bitternesses; he greatly filled me with wormwood.
Hebrews 11:25and chose more [or rather] to be tormented with the people of God, than to have (the) mirth of temporal 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 →