Proverbs 9:17 - American Standard Version (1901)

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

More versions

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.]

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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁷ “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Proverbs 9:17 Cross References

Genesis 3:6

And 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 thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 30:20

So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

Proverbs 5:16

Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?

Proverbs 5:18

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

Romans 7:8

but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner 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.