Proverbs 9:17
Waters of theft be sweeter, and bread hid is sweeter. (Stolen water is sweeter, and hidden bread is sweeter.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 5:24And when Gehazi had come (back) then in the eventide, he took it from the hand of them, and laid it up in the house; and he delivered the men, and they went forth. (And when Gehazi had come back in the evening, he took the bundles out of their hands, and laid them up in the house; and he let the men go, and they went away.)
Proverbs 7:20He took with him a bag of money; he shall turn again in to his house in the day of [the] full moon. (He took a bag of money with him; and he shall not return to his house until the day of the full moon.)
Proverbs 23:31Behold thou not [the] wine (or Look thou not upon the wine), when it sparkleth, when the colour thereof shineth in a glass cup. It entereth sweetly,
Romans 7:8And through occasion taken, sin by the commandment hath wrought in me all covetousness; for without the law, sin was dead.
James 1:14But each man is tempted, drawn (away) and stirred, of his own coveting. [Soothly each man is tempted of (or by) his own coveting, drawn (away) from reason, and snared, or deceived.] (But each person is tempted or tested, drawn away and stirred, by his own lusts and envies.)
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 →