SinaiProverbs 9:17
American Standard Version
Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
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Proverbs 9:17 in other translations
“Stolen water is sweet.
Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
Proverbs 9:17 in context
- 15To call to them that pass by, Who go right on their ways:
- 16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
- 17Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
- 18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.