◄ Proverbs 20:17 ►
Verse  (Click for Chapter)
Good News Translation
What you get by dishonesty you may enjoy like the finest food, but sooner or later it will be like a mouthful of sand.

New Revised Standard Version
Bread gained by deceit is sweet, but afterward the mouth will be full of gravel.

Contemporary English Version
The food you get by cheating may taste delicious, but it turns to gravel.

New American Bible
Bread earned by deceit is sweet, but afterward the mouth is filled with gravel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Context
Wine is a Mocker
…16Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers. 17The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.18Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.…
Cross References
Proverbs 9:17
And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Proverbs 20:16
Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Lamentations 3:16
Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

Proverbs 20:16
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