💡WEB · Proverbs 20:17
What does Proverbs 20:17 mean?
"Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel."
— Proverbs 20:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
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