Proverbs 20:17 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

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

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. ⁷ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.

¹² Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; ¹³ Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth; ¹⁴ Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. ¹⁵ He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly. ¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him. ¹⁷ He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and curd. ¹⁸ That which he laboured for shall he give back, and shall not swallow it down; according to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice. ¹⁹ For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. ²⁰ Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,

¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

¹⁷ 'Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.' ¹⁸ But he knoweth not that the shades are there; that her guests are in the depths of the nether-world.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood. ¹⁶ He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.

²⁵ choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,