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“To eat gravel” was a Hebrew phrase (Lamentations 3:16), and is an Arabic phrase for getting into trouble. So “bread,” got by deceit, t…

Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man. Which may be understood of sin in general, which is bread to the sinner, he eats it:…

Wealth gotten by fraud may be sweet, for the carnal mind takes pleasure in the success of wicked devices; but it will be bitter in the reflection.<…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes