“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 unsatisfied. There is a pleasure in the sense of cleverness felt after a hard bargain or a successful fraud, which must be met by bidding men look on the after consequences.
Related Commentaries of Proverbs 20:17
Proverbs 20:17
17 Bread of deceitd is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.