17 Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:17
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 17
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Food לֶ֣חֶם H3899 Noun - masculine singular construct gained by fraud שָׁ֑קֶר H8267 Noun - masculine singular is sweet עָרֵ֣ב H6156 Adjective - masculine singular to a man לָ֭אִישׁ H376 Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular but later וְ֝אַחַ֗ר H310 Conjunctive waw | Adverb his mouth פִ֥יהוּ H6310 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular is full of יִמָּֽלֵא־ H4390 Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular gravel חָצָֽץ׃ H2687 Noun - masculine singular