Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
KJV
Parallel translations
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4 additional translationsASV
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
WEB
Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
YLT
Sweet to a man is the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled with gravel.
DBT
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.