Proverbs 9:17-18

New International Version

¹⁷    “Stolen water is sweet;
    food eaten in secret is delicious!^(A)”
¹⁸But little do they know that the dead are there,
    that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.^(B)

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Proverbs 9:17-18

King James Version

¹⁷Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

¹⁸But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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Proverbs 9:17-18

New American Standard Bible

¹⁷“Stolen water is sweet;
And ^(A)bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
¹⁸But he does not know that the ^[a]dead are there,
That her guests are in the ^(B)depths of Sheol.

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Footnotes

Proverbs 9:18 Lit departed spirits

Proverbs 9:17-18

New King James Version

¹⁷“Stolen^(A) water is sweet,
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
¹⁸But he does not know that ^(B)the dead are there,
That her guests are in the depths of ^[a]hell.