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Proverbs 20

Prov. 20:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Bread
lechem (Hebrew #3899)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV usage: ((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.
Pronounce: lekh'-em
Origin: from 3898
of βdeceit
sheqer (Hebrew #8267)
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
KJV usage: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, + lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
Pronounce: sheh'-ker
Origin: from 8266
is sweet
`areb (Hebrew #6156)
pleasant
KJV usage: sweet.
Pronounce: aw-rabe'
Origin: from 6149
to a man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
; but afterwards
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
his mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
shall be filled
male' (Hebrew #4390)
a primitive root, to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: accomplish, confirm, + consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, X draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), (over-)flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a (hand-)full, + have wholly.
Pronounce: maw-lay'
Origin: or malae (Esth. 7:5) {maw-law'}
with gravel
chatsats (Hebrew #2687)
properly, something cutting; hence, gravel (as grit); also (like 2671) an arrow
KJV usage: arrow, gravel (stone).
Pronounce: khaw-tsawts'
Origin: from 2687
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lying, or, falsehood.

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Ministry on This Verse

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deceit.
Heb. lying, or falsehood.
Prov. 4:17• 17For they eat the bread of wickedness{HR}And drink the wine of violence. (Prov. 4:17)
is sweet.
Prov. 9:17‑18• 17Stolen waters are sweet,{HR}And the bread of secrecy is pleasant.
 18But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there,{HR}[That] her guests [are] in the depths of Sheol. (Prov. 9:17‑18)
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Gen. 3:6‑7• 6When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that [it was] pleasant to the eyes, and the tree [was] desirable to make wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
 7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they joined together fig-leaves, and made themselves aprons . (Gen. 3:6‑7)
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Job 20:12‑20• 12Though evil maketh sweet in his mouth —{HR}He hideth it under his tongue,
 13He is sparing of it, and will not let it go,{HR}And retaineth it in the midst of his palate —
 14His food is changed in his bowels,{HR}The poison of asps is within him.
 15Wealth hath he swallowed, and shall disgorge it:{HR}God will eject it again out of his belly.
 16He shall suck the poison of asps:{HR}The tongue of the viper shall slay him.
 17He shall not gaze on rivulets,{HR}Flowings of streams of honey and butter.
 18What he laboured for, he shall restore, and not swallow.{HR}As the property his exchange, and he rejoiceth not,
 19For he crushed, abandoned, the poor,{HR}Seized a house, and built it not;
 20For he knew no rest in his belly;{HR}He shall not escape with his desirable thing, (Job 20:12‑20)
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Eccl. 11:9• 9Rejoice, young man, in thy youth;{HR}And let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth,{HR}And walk in the ways of thy heart,{HR}And in the sight of thine eyes;{HR}But know that for all these [things]{HR}God will bring thee into judgment.{HR} (Eccl. 11:9)
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Heb. 11:25• 25choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to have temporary pleasure of sin, (Heb. 11:25)
his.
Lam. 3:15‑16• 15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
 16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. (Lam. 3:15‑16)
• In place of a sweet and delectable dainty, the mouth will be filled with gravel, hard and disappointing. Compare Proverbs 9:17, 18, and see Matthew 26:14-16 and 27:3-5. (“Proverbs Twenty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

W. Kelly Translation

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Bread of falsehood [is] sweet to man,{HR}But afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.