Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 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.
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Proverbs 9:17
17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.