Proverbs 20:17 - Tree of Life Version

Bread gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is filled with gravel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

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

Proverbs 20:17 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 20:16

Take a man’s garment, who puts up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge, as security for a foreign woman.

Proverbs 4:17

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

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, in your childhood, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

Hebrews 11:25

Instead he chose to suffer mistreatment along with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.