New Revised Standard Version
“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Contemporary English Version
"Stolen water tastes best, and the food you eat in secret tastes best of all."

New American Bible
Stolen water is sweet, and bread taken secretly is pleasing!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

stolen

Proverbs 20:17 The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 23:31,32 Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, . . .

Genesis 3:6 And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.

Romans 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured. . . .

eaten in secret

Proverbs 7:18-20 For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey. . . .

Proverbs 30:20 Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.

2 Kings 5:24-27 And when he was come, and now it was the evening, he took them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and sent the men away, and they departed. . . .

Ephesians 5:12 For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.