World English Bible
Proverbs 9:17
“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
Verse in context — Proverbs 9
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To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,
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Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
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Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.
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But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.