Proverbs 9:17
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
KJV
Aquæ furtivæ dulciores sunt, et panis absconditus suavior.
Vulgate
Ἄρτων κρυφίων ἡδέως ἅψασθε, καὶ ὕδατος κλοπῆς γλυκεροῦ.
LXX
Stolen waters are sweet, And breadeatenin secret is pleasant.
ASV
מַֽיִם גְּנוּבִ֥ים יִמְתָּ֑קוּ וְ/לֶ֖חֶם סְתָרִ֣ים יִנְעָֽם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
יִנְעָֽם
yn'm
verb · 8×
יִּמְתְּק֖וּ
ymtqv
verb · 5×
לֶ֣חֶם
lchm
noun · 297×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
סֵ֣תֶר
str
noun · 36×
תִּגְנֹ֤ב
tgnb
verb · 39×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 1. Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows. I. The man who fears God seeks diligently in Holy Scripture for a knowledge of His will. And when he has become meek through piety, so as to have no love of strife; when furnished also with a knowledge of languages, so as not to be stopped by unknown words and forms of speech, and with the knowledge of …
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 5:24 — And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
- Eph 5:12 — For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
- Eph 5:12 — For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
- Gen 3:6 — And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto
- Jas 1:14 — But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
- Job 20:12 — Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
- Prov 4:17 — For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
- Prov 7:18 — Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
- Prov 9:5 — Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
- Prov 20:17 — Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- Prov 20:17 — Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- Prov 23:31 — Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
- Prov 30:20 — Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
- Rom 7:8 — But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.