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Read Full Chapter (Proverbs 9) Proverbs 9:17-18 KJV
"Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell."
Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 17-18
Proverbs 9:17-18 in Context (Verses 14–18 KJV)
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For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
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To call passengers who go right on their ways:
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Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.*
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But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.