Proverbs 20:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 20:17 Cross References

Proverbs 20:16

Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Hebrews 11:25

choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.