Proverbs 9:17 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁷ But she (Foolishness) says, “If you steal water, it tastes better than your own. If you steal bread, it tastes better than the bread you cook yourself.”

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 9:17 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:6

The woman saw the tree was beautiful. She saw the fruit was good to eat. And it was exciting that the tree would make her wise. So the woman took fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some of the fruit to him and he ate it.

Proverbs 20:17

If you get something by cheating, it may seem like a good thing. But in the end it will be worth nothing.

Proverbs 30:20

A woman who is not faithful to her husband acts like she has done nothing wrong. She eats, takes a bath, and says she has done nothing wrong.

Proverbs 5:18

So, be happy with your own wife. Enjoy the woman you married while you were young.

Romans 7:8

And sin found a way to use that command and make me want every kind of wrong thing. So sin came to me because of that command. But without the law, sin has no power.

Ephesians 5:12

It is really very shameful to even talk about the things those people in darkness do in secret.