OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 17

Proverbs 20:17

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Fraudulent food is sweet to a man,

but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

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Proverbs 20:14–20

14

“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;

but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

15

There is gold and abundance of rubies,

but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

16

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger;

and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

17
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Fraudulent food is sweet to a man,

but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

18

Plans are established by advice;

by wise guidance you wage war!

19

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets;

therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

20

Whoever curses his father or his mother,

his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

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