Proverbs 9:17 - The Scriptures 2009

“Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden]; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Prov. 20:17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Common English Bible

“Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

"Stolen waters are more soothing, and secret bread is more pleasant."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.

Proverbs 9:17 Cross References

Genesis 3:6

And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, and she took of its fruit and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread gained by deceit might be sweet to a man, But afterward his mouth is filled with gravel.

Proverbs 30:20

This is the way of an adulterous woman: She shall eat and wipe her mouth, and say, “I have not done wickedness.”

Proverbs 5:16

Should your springs be scattered abroad, Rivers of water in the streets?

Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth –

Romans 7:8

But sin, having taken the occasion through the command, did work in me all sorts of covetousness. For apart from Torah sin is dead.

Ephesians 5:12

For it is a shame even to speak of what is done by them in secret.