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Selected Verse: Proverbs 9:17 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 9:17 |
King James |
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| The language of a proverb, meaning that forbidden delights are sweet and pleasant, as fruits of risk and danger. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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 Rom 7:7). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Sweet - From the difficulty of obtaining them; and because the very prohibition renders them more grateful to corrupt nature. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.