Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Prov 20:17

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

“Bread . . . sweet--either as unlawfully (Pro 9:17) or easily obtained. mouth . . . gravel--well expresses the pain and grief given at last.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.