¹⁷ Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, But afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

¹⁷ "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."

¹⁸ But he doesn't know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

⁹ Rejoice, young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, And walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

¹⁶ He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.

²⁵ choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

⁶ When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

⁷ Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

¹² "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

¹³ Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

¹⁴ Yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

¹⁵ He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

¹⁶ He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

¹⁷ He shall not look at the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

¹⁸ That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

¹⁹ For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

²⁰ "Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.