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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, and drink the wine of violence. (Prov. 4:17)
is sweet.
Prov. 9:17‑18• 17Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.
 18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. (Prov. 9:17‑18)
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Gen. 3:6‑7• 6And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and 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 sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. (Gen. 3:6‑7)
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Job 20:12‑20• 12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,
 13Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
 14His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.
 15He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: *God shall cast them out of his belly.
 16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
 17He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
 18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein.
 19For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
 20Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired. (Job 20:12‑20)
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Eccl. 11:9• 9Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. (Eccl. 11:9)
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Heb. 11:25• 25choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have the temporary pleasure of sin; (Heb. 11:25)
his.
Lam. 3:15‑16• 15He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk 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.