17Food 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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Foodלֶ֣חֶםH3899Noun - masculine singular constructgained by fraudשָׁ֑קֶרH8267Noun - masculine singularis sweetעָרֵ֣בH6156Adjective - masculine singularto a manלָ֭אִישׁH376Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singularbut laterוְ֝אַחַ֗רH310Conjunctive waw | Adverbhis mouthפִ֥יהוּH6310Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singularis full ofיִמָּֽלֵא־H4390Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singulargravelחָצָֽץ׃H2687Noun - masculine singular