Proverbs 20:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ 4 The steps of man are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can understand his own way?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Food gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Stolen bread is sweet, but afterward the mouth is full of gravel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ The bread of lies is sweet to a man. But afterwards, his mouth will be filled with pebbles.

Proverbs 20:17 Cross References

Proverbs 20:16

3 Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.

Proverbs 4:17

4 Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Before the silver cord be broken, and the golden fillet shrink back, and the pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be broken upon the cistern,

Hebrews 11:25

4 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners: