Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Holman Bible
and bread eaten secretly is tasty!”
International Standard Version
"Stolen waters are sweet, and food eaten in secret is delicious."
A Conservative Version
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread in secret is pleasant.
American Standard Version
Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Amplified
“Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden];
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
Bible in Basic English
Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
Darby Translation
Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.
Julia Smith Translation
Stolen waters will be sweet, and the bread of secrets shall be pleasant
King James 2000
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Stolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant."
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread that is privily eaten, hath a good taste."
NET Bible
"Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!"
New Heart English Bible
"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
The Emphasized Bible
Stolen waters, will be sweet, - and a secret meal, will be pleasant;
Webster
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
World English Bible
"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
Youngs Literal Translation
'Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.'
Themes
Error » Known to God » Allurements of
Harlot (prostitute) » Machinations of
Interlinear
Mayim
Lechem
Cether
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 9:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Foolishness' Banquet
16 The simple one, let him turn in here. And to one lacking heart, she says to him, 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 18 But he does not know that the dead are there; her guests are in the depths of hell.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 23:31-32
Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly
Proverbs 30:20
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no evil.
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
2 Kings 5:24-27
And he came to the hill, and he took from their hand and stowed them in the house. And he let the men go, and they departed.
Proverbs 7:18-20
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us delight ourselves with caresses.
Romans 7:8
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of lust. For apart from law sin was dead.
Ephesians 5:12
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
James 1:14-15
But each one is tempted by his lusts, being drawn away and seduced by them.