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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 bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
 18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. (Prov. 9:17‑18)
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Gen. 3:6‑7• 6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
 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, though he hide it under his tongue;
 13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
 14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
 15He hath swallowed down riches, and 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 slay him.
 17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
 18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
 19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
 20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. (Job 20:12‑20)
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Eccl. 11:9• 9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, 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 with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; (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.