Proverbs 9:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁷ *Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.*

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ "Stolen waters are more soothing, and secret bread is more pleasant."

Proverbs 9:17 Cross References

Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

Proverbs 20:17

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

Proverbs 30:20

*So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

Proverbs 5:16

Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

Proverbs 5:18

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Romans 7:8

But sin, finding occasion through the mitzvah, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Ephesians 5:12

For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.