Özdeyişler 9:17
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Context
This verse from Özdeyişler Chapter 9 connects to 10 cross-references. Wisdom and Folly are contrasted as two women hosting rival feasts. Wisdom has built her house with seven pillars and invites the simple to eat her bread and drink her wine. Folly sits at the door of her house calling …
Diğer Çeviriler
Stolen waters are sweet, And breadeatenin secret is pleasant.
`Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.'
Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
Çapraz Referanslar
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no …
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it …
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, …