Proverbs 20:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Proverbs 20:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“To eat gravel” was a Hebrew Lamentations 3:16 , and is an Arabic, phrase for getting into trouble. So “bread,” got by deceit, tastes sweet at first, but ends by leaving the hunger of the soul uns...
Proverbs 20:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9 ; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thou...
Proverbs 20:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bread of deceit . Bread gained by deceit. Genitive of Origin. See App-17 (2). Bread. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part), for all kinds of food. deceit . lying. Hebrew. sheker. See...
Proverbs 20:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. Bread of deceit is sweet - Property acquired by falsehood, speculation, etc., without labor, is pleasant to...
Proverbs 20:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bread of deceit— Bread gained by fraud. Houbigant.
Proverbs 20:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. Bread of deceit - bread obtained by deceit ( Proverbs 4:17 ; Proverbs 23:3 ). If the Qeri' reading, a...
Proverbs 20:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Proverbs 20:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimps...
Proverbs 20:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Glory of Young Men” Proverbs 20:16-30 What a wonderful thought is given in Proverbs 20:27 ! We stand like a row of unlighted candles until God's Spirit kindles us. Has the Divine Nature e...
Proverbs 20:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 20:9 . This is the eternal challenge which has but one answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour. Verse Proverbs 20:14 . "It is bad, it is bad," is the d...
Proverbs 20:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. There i...
Proverbs 20:17 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

HARD FARE ‘Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall he filled with gravel.’ Proverbs 20:17 There are instances in which a very little practice in evil will make real...
Proverbs 20:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man ,.... Which may be understood of sin in general, which is bread to the sinner, he eats it: it is called "the bread of wickedness", Proverbs 4:17 ; but it is but...
Proverbs 20:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. Ver. 17. Bread of deceit is sweet to a man. ] Sin's murdering morsels will deceive those that devour th...
Proverbs 20:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bread of deceit Gain or pleasure procured by unrighteous courses; is sweet to a man And the more sweet, because it is unlawfully obtained; such pleasure doth the carnal mind take in the success o...
Proverbs 20:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. Note, 1. Sin may possibly be pleasant in the commission: Bread of deceit, wealth gotte...
Proverbs 20:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bread of deceit; gain or pleasure procured by unrighteous courses. His mouth shall be filled with gravel; it shall be bitter and pernicious at last, like gritty bread, which offends the teeth and...
Proverbs 20:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 20:17 . A man . The Hebrew word here used is the one which denotes a superior man . MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:17 BAD BREAD I. Some gratification is to be o...
Proverbs 20:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:17 There are instances in which a very little practice in evil will make real wickedness seem to one harmless, to another necessary, to another almost satisfactory. This is what the wi...
Proverbs 20:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:1 . Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1-2 . Cyrus, afte...
Proverbs 20:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker; or, scorner, the word ( luts ) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its infl...
Proverbs 20:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 17. Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, what he gains by such means may seem pleasant and enjoyable to him at first; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel, it will be most disagr...
Proverbs 20:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 11:9 ; Genesis 3:6 ; Genesis 3:7 ; Hebrews 11:25 ; Job 20:12-20 ; Lamentations 3:15 ; Lamentations 3:16 ; Proverbs 4:17 ; Proverbs 9:17 ; Proverbs 9:18

Proverbs 20:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 20:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 20:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 20:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 20:17 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 20:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 20:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 20:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 20:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 20:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 20:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge