Proverbs 20:17

In 10 translations

BSB

Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.

KJV

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.deceit: Heb. lying, or, falsehood

WEB

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

ASV

Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

LSV

The bread of falsehood [is] sweet to a man, || And afterward his mouth is filled [with] gravel.

YLT

Sweet to a man [is] the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled [with] gravel.

DBY

Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

DRC

The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

GNV

The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.

JPS

Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

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Original-language editions

WLC

עָרֵ֣ב לָ֭אִישׁ לֶ֣חֶם שָׁ֑קֶר וְ֝אַחַ֗ר יִמָּֽלֵא־פִ֥יהוּ חָצָֽץ׃

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to…
• Proverbs 9:17–18“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!” But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
• Job 20:12–20Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue, though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth, yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him. He swallows…
• Lamentations 3:15–16He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood. He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
• Hebrews 11:25He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
• Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
• Genesis 3:6–7When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate…

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