Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
'Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread 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 King James verseion
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret 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."
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 Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart -- she said to him, 17 'Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.' 18 And he hath not known that Rephaim are there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!
Cross References
Proverbs 20:17
Sweet to a man is the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled with gravel.
Proverbs 23:31-32
See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.
Proverbs 30:20
So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, 'I have not done iniquity.'
Genesis 3:6
And the woman seeth that the tree is good for food, and that it is pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make one wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;
2 Kings 5:24-27
and he cometh in unto the high place, and taketh out of their hand, and layeth up in the house, and sendeth away the men, and they go.
Proverbs 7:18-20
Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.
Romans 7:8
Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.
Ephesians 5:12
for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,
James 1:14-15
and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,