Add parallel Print Page Options

17 Stolen water is sweeter,
    and food eaten in secret tastes better.”
18 But these people don’t know that ·everyone who goes there dies [the dead/departed/shades are there],
    that her guests ·end up deep in the grave [L are in the depths of Sheol].

Read full chapter

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)

Read full chapter