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Proverbs 9:17
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"Stolen water is refreshing; food eaten in secret tastes the best!"
Stolen waters are sweet, And bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
Stolen water is sweeter, and food eaten in secret tastes better."
"Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!"
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
"Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden]; And bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
"Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
Watris of thefte ben swettere, and breed hid is swettere.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
"Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!"
"Stolen water tastes best, and the food you eat in secret tastes best of all."
Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
"Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is pleasant."
Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.
"Stolen water is sweet. Stolen bread tastes good."
'Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.'
Stollen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
"Stolen water is sweet. And bread eaten in secret is pleasing."
"Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.
Stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
"Stolen water is sweeter. Stolen bread tastes better."
Stolen waters, will be sweet, - and a secret meal, will be pleasant;
Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.
"Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
Stolen waters are sweete, & the bread that is priuily eaten, hath a good taste.
Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.
“Stolen water is sweet,and bread eaten secretly is tasty!”
"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
"Stolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant."
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
`Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.'
stollen waters are swete, & the bred that is preuely eaten, hath a good taist.
"Stolen water is sweet; And bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
"Stolen water is sweet; And bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
"Stolen water is sweet;And bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Stolen: Proverbs 20:17, Proverbs 23:31, Proverbs 23:32, Genesis 3:6, Romans 7:8, James 1:14, James 1:15
eaten in secret: Heb. of secrecies, Proverbs 7:18-20, Proverbs 30:20, 2 Kings 5:24-27, Ephesians 5:12
Reciprocal: Genesis 39:11 - none of the men 2 Samuel 3:16 - along weeping Job 20:12 - wickedness Proverbs 1:18 - General Proverbs 4:17 - General Proverbs 9:5 - General Romans 6:21 - What
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Stolen waters are sweet,.... Wells and fountains of waters in those hot countries were very valuable, and were the property of particular persons; about which there were sometimes great strife and contention; and they were sometimes sealed and kept from the use of others; see Genesis 26:18; now waters got by stealth from such wells and fountains were sweeter than their own, or what might be had in common and without difficulty, to which the proverb alludes. By which in general is meant, that all prohibited unlawful lusts and pleasures are desirable to men, and sweet in the enjoyment of them; and the pleasure promised by them is what makes them so desirable, and the more so because forbidden: and particularly as adultery, which is a sort of theft r, and a drinking water out of another's cistern, Proverbs 5:15; being forbidden and unlawful, and secretly committed, is sweeter to an unclean person than a lawful enjoyment of his own wife; so false worship, superstition, and idolatry, the inventions of men, and obedience to their commands, which are no other than spiritual adultery, are more grateful and pleasing to a corrupt mind than the true and pure worship of God;
and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant; or, "bread of secret places" s; hidden bread, as the Targum, Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions; that which is stolen and is another's t, and is taken and hid in secret places, fetched out from thence, or eaten there: the sweet morsel of sin, rolled in the mouth, and kept under the tongue; secret lusts, private sins, particularly idolatry, to which men are secretly enticed, and which they privately commit, Deuteronomy 13:6; the same thing is designed by this clause as the forager.
r "Furtiva Verus", Ovid de Arte Amandi, l. 1. "Furta Jovis, furtiva munuscula", Catullus ad Mantium, Ep. 66. v. 140, 145. So Propertius, l. 2. eleg. 30. v. 28. Î³Î»Ï ÎºÏ Ïι κλεÏÏομενον μελημα
ÎºÏ ÏÏιδοÏ, Pindar; for which he was indebted to Solomon, according to Clemens of Alexandria, Paedagog. l. 3. p. 252. s סתר×× "latebraram", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis. t "Quas habeat veneres aliens pecunia nescis", Juvenal. Satyr. 13.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The besetting sin of all times and countries, the one great proof of the inherent corruption of manâs nature. Pleasures are attractive because they are forbidden (compare Romans 7:7).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 9:17. Stolen waters are sweet — I suppose this to be a proverbial mode of expression, importing that illicit pleasures are sweeter than those which are legal. The meaning is easy to be discerned; and the conduct of multitudes shows that they are ruled by this adage. On it are built all the adulterous intercourses in the land.
