Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Stolen waters are sweet - I suppose this to be a proverbial mode of expression, importing that illicit pleasures are sweeter than those which are legal The meaning is easy to be discerned; and the conduct of multitudes shows that they are ruled by this adage. On it are built all the adulterous intercourses in the land.
The besetting sin of all times and countries, the one great proof of the inherent corruption of man's nature. Pleasures are attractive because they are forbidden (compare Romans 7:7).
9:17 Sweet - From the difficulty of obtaining them; and because the very prohibition renders them more grateful to corrupt nature.