Proverbs 20:17
¶ Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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- Prov 9:17-18 : 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.
- Eccl 11:9 : 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 thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.
- Lam 3:15-16 : 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
- Heb 11:25 : 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
- Gen 3:6-7 : 6 ¶ And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and 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 aprons.
- Job 20:12-20 : 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue; 13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 [Yet] his meat 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 see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. 18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein]. 19 Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; 20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
- Prov 4:17 : 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
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3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful meat.
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12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
13[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
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6Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.
7¶ The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
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6¶ Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
7For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.
8The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
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14¶ [It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
15¶ There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel.
16¶ Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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20¶ A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; [and] with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
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2¶ A man shall eat good by the fruit of [his] mouth: but the soul of the transgressors [shall eat] violence.
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14¶ A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of [his] mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
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17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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18¶ [Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
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16¶ Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
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25¶ [It is] a snare to the man [who] devoureth [that which is] holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
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26For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
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13¶ My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:
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5¶ A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
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23¶ A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
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7All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee [even] to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, [and] prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy bread have laid a wound under thee: [there is] none understanding in him.
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19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
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6¶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
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20Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
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27¶ Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
28¶ A lying tongue hateth [those that are] afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
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21¶ To have respect of persons [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress.
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7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.
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20¶ Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy.
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3The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good.
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19¶ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.
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20¶ He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
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20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
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30[Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
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26¶ He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
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19So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
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11¶ He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding.
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21[The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were] they drawn swords.
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17That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
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12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
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19¶ Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble [is like] a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
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18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].
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7¶ All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
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20He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand?