"Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!"
Cross References
Proverbs 5:16Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
Proverbs 5:18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
Proverbs 20:17Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
Treasury of Scripture
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
stolen
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 23:31,32
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright…
Genesis 3:6
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.
eaten in secret
Proverbs 7:18-20
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves…
Proverbs 30:20
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
2 Kings 5:24-27
And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed…
