Proverbs 20:17
Good News Translation
What you get by dishonesty you may enjoy like the finest food, but sooner or later it will be like a mouthful of sand.

Contemporary English Version
The food you get by cheating may taste delicious, but it turns to gravel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

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The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Context
Wine is a Mocker
16Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers. 17The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.18Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.…
Cross References
Proverbs 9:17
And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Proverbs 20:16
Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Lamentations 3:16
Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

Additional Translations
Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

Sweet to a man is the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled with gravel.
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