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Proverbs 9:17-18
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17 
“Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden];
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”(A)
18 
But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there,
And that her guests are [already] in the depths of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

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Proverbs 9:17-18
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17     “Stolen water is sweet;
    food eaten in secret is delicious!(A)”
18 But little do they know that the dead are there,
    that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.(B)

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