World English Bible
""Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.""
— Proverbs 9:17, World English Bible
“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
“Stolen waters are sweet, And breadeatenin secret is pleasant. ”
““Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!””
“Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.”
“Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.”
“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,
"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.