Proverbs 9:17

In 11 translations

BSB

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”

KJV

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.eaten…: Heb. of secrecies

WEB

“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

ASV

Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

LSV

“Stolen waters are sweet, || And hidden bread is pleasant.”

YLT

'Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.'

DBY

Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.

DRC

Stolen waters are sweeter, and hid den bread is more pleasant.

GNV

Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.

JPS

'Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.'

LXXE

Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.

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Original-language editions

WLC

מַֽיִם־גְּנוּבִ֥ים יִמְתָּ֑קוּ וְלֶ֖חֶם סְתָרִ֣ים יִנְעָֽם׃

LXX-Br

ἄρτων κρυφίων ἡδέως ἅψασθε, καὶ ὕδατος κλοπῆς γλυκεροῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 20:17Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
• Proverbs 23:31–32Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
• Proverbs 30:20This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
• James 1:14–15But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
• Genesis 3:6When 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…
• Romans 7:8But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
• 2 Kings 5:24–27When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the gifts from the servants and stored them in the house. Then he dismissed the men, and they departed. When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi,…
• Proverbs 7:18–20Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses! For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey. He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is…
• Ephesians 5:12For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

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