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Proverbs 20:17
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Stolen bread tastes sweet, but it turns to gravel in the mouth.
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Stolen food may taste sweet at first, but later it will feel like a mouth full of gravel.
Bread gained by deceit tastes sweet to a person, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, But afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.
The breed of a leesing is sweet to a man; and aftirward his mouth schal be fillid with rikenyng.
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
The food you get by cheating may taste delicious, but it turns to gravel.
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.
Food obtained by fraud may taste good, but later the mouth is full of gravel.
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
It may seem to be a good thing to get something by cheating, but in the end, it will be worth nothing.
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with grauell.
Bread a man gets by lying is sweet to him, but later his mouth will be filled with sand.
Bread gained by deceit is sweet, but afterward the mouth will be full of gravel.
The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.
He who becomes surety for a man by means of deceitful gain will afterwards have his mouth filled with gravel.
What you get by dishonesty you may enjoy like the finest food, but sooner or later it will be like a mouthful of sand.
Sweet to a man, may be the bread of falsehood, but, afterward, shall his mouth be filled with gravel.
The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.
A man liketh the bread that is gotten with deceipt: but at the last his mouth shalbe filled with grauell.
Food gained by fraud is sweet to a person,but afterward his mouth is full of gravel.
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, But afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Bread gained by deceit is sweet for the man, but afterward, his mouth will be filled with gravel.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Sweet to a man [is] the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled [with] gravel.
Euery ma liketh the bred that is gotten with disceate, but at the last is mouth shalbe fylled with grauell.
Stolen bread tastes sweet, but soon your mouth is full of gravel.
Bread obtained by a lie is sweet to a person, But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
Bread obtained by falsehood is sweet to a man, But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
Bread obtained by lying is sweet to a man,But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
deceit: Heb. lying, or falsehood, Proverbs 4:17
is sweet: Proverbs 9:17, Proverbs 9:18, Genesis 3:6, Genesis 3:7, Job 20:12-20, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Hebrews 11:25
his: Lamentations 3:15, Lamentations 3:16
Cross-References
"So now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her [to him], know that you shall die, you and all who are yours (your household)."
Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I offended you that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me what ought not to be done [to anyone]."
And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What have you encountered or seen [in us or our customs], that you have done this [unjust] thing?"
Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely there is no fear or reverence of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'
"Besides, she actually is my [half] sister; she is the daughter of my father [Terah], but not of my mother; and she became my wife.
Now when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He made her able to bear children, but Rachel was barren.
so that they may offer pleasing (sweet-smelling) sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.
The sacrifice of the wicked is hateful and exceedingly offensive to the LORD, But the prayer of the upright is His delight!
The LORD is far from the wicked [and distances Himself from them], But He hears the prayer of the [consistently] righteous [that is, those with spiritual integrity and moral courage].
For the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker says this, "Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons, And give Me orders concerning the work of My hands.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man,.... Which may be understood of sin in general, which is bread to the sinner, he eats it: it is called "the bread of wickedness", Proverbs 4:17; but it is but poor bread, no other than ashes Isaiah 44:20; it is "bread of deceit"; there is a deceitfulness in all sin; it is in appearance fair and pleasant to the eye, like the fruit our first parents ate of; or like the apples of Sodom, of which it is reported that they are very beautiful to look at, but when touched drop into ashes; sin promises pleasure, profit, honour, liberty, peace, and impunity, yet gives neither; but the reverse, pain, loss, shame, servitude distress, and destruction; and yet it is sweet to an unregenerate man, one of a vicious taste, or whose taste remains unchanged; it is natural to him and he takes as much delight in it as in eating and drinking; and especially such sins as are called constitution ones, which he is not easily prevailed upon to part with; wickedness is sweet in his mouth, he rolls it and keeps it as a sweet morsel under his tongue, and forsakes it not,
Job 20:12. It may be applied to particular sins, as to adultery, as it is by Jarchi, and with which may be compared Proverbs 9:17; and to riches unlawfully gotten; see Job 20:15; and to the cruel usage and persecution of the people of God, called the bread of wickedness and wine of violence, which wicked men take as much delight in as in eating and drinking, Proverbs 4:17; particularly the cruelty of the church of Rome, who has made herself drunk with the blood of the saints, in which she delights, and will be bitter to her in the end,
Revelation 17:6. It may be interpreted of false doctrine; so the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees is signified by leavened bread,
Matthew 16:6; this is not true bread, does not strengthen, nourish, and refresh, as the Gospel does, but eats as a canker; it is not solid and substantial, but mere chaff, it is bread of falsehood and lying; false teachers lie in wait to deceive, their doctrines are lies in hypocrisy, and, yet these are sweet unto, and taken down greedily by carnal persons; particularly the doctrine of justification by works: this is the bread some men live on, but it is only husks which swine eat; it is feeding on wind, and filling the belly with east wind, which swells and vainly puffs up the fleshly mind; it is contrary to the, Gospel, and is not of the truth, and will deceive persons that trust to it; and yet it is sweet to a natural man; his own righteousness, and to trust to it, is natural to him; it is his own, and what he has laboured for, and is fond of; it affords room for boasting, and he does not care to part with it;
but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel; with that which will be ungrateful, uncomfortable, and distressing to him; the conscience of a sinner, who has been taking his fill of sin and pleasure in it shall be filled with remorse and distress; and with bitter reflections upon himself; with a dreadful sense of divine wrath, and fearful apprehensions of it now; and destruction and damnation will be his portion hereafter; and this will be the consequence of all false doctrine, and of a man's trusting to his own righteousness and despising Christ's; see 2 Peter 2:1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
“To eat gravel” was a Hebrew Lamentations 3:16, and is an Arabic, phrase for getting into trouble. So “bread,” got by deceit, tastes sweet at first, but ends by leaving the hunger of the soul unsatisfied. There is a pleasure in the sense of cleverness felt after a hard bargain or a successful fraud, which must be met by bidding men look on the after consequences.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 20:17. Bread of deceit is sweet — Property acquired by falsehood, speculation, c., without labour, is pleasant to the unprincipled, slothful man but there is a curse in it, and the issue will prove it.
