Verse 17

A man liketh the bread that is gotten with deceipt: but at the last his mouth shalbe filled with grauell.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 9:17-18 : 17 Stolen waters are sweete, & the bread that is priuily eaten, hath a good taste. 18 And he doth not consider that they are but dead whiche be there, and that her ghestes are in the deepe of hell.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Be glad then (O thou young man) in thy youth, and let thy heart be merie in thy young dayes, folowe the wayes of thyne owne heart, and the lust of thyne eyes, but be thou sure that God shall bryng thee into iudgement for all these thinges.
  • Lam 3:15-16 : 15 He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke. 16 He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust.
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 Chosyng rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioye the pleasures of sinne for a season:
  • Gen 3:6-7 : 6 And so the woman, seing that the same tree was good to eate of, and pleasaunt to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, toke of the fruite therof, and dyd eate, and gaue also vnto her husbande beyng with her, and he dyd eate. 7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knewe that they were naked, and they sowed fygge leaues together, & made them selues apernes.
  • Job 20:12-20 : 12 When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, he hyd it vnder his tongue. 13 That he fauoured, that would he not forsake, but kept it close in his throte. 14 The bread that he did eate, is turned to the poyson of serpentes within his bodye. 15 The riches that he deuoured shall he parbreake againe: for God shall drawe them out of his belly. 16 He shall sucke the gall of serpentes, and the adders tongue shall slay him: 17 So that he shall no more see the ryuers and brookes of hony and butter. 18 The thing he hath laboured for, shall he restore, and shall not eate of it: great trauaile shall he make for riches, but he shall not enioy them. 19 And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them. 20 Because he could not perceaue when his belly was well, through his greedie desire he shall not escape.
  • Prov 4:17 : 17 For they eate the bread of wickednes, and drinke the wine of robberie.