Proverbs 9:17
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
In other versions
Stolen waters are sweet, And bread `eaten' in secret is pleasant.
ASV
Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
BBE
Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.
DBY
"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
WEB
`Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.'
YLT
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
ENG
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
WBT
“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
BSB
In context
15To call passengers who go right on their ways:
16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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.