Proverbs 23:6

If someone who is stingy invites you to a meal, do not eat a lot of his fine food,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

In Context

5because as soon as you look [MTY] at all the money that you have acquired, it will be gone; it will disappear as if it suddenly grew wings [SIM] and flew up into the sky like an eagle.

7because he will be thinking about how much the food cost that you are eating. He will say to you, “Eat and drink all that you want!”, but that is not what he will really be thinking.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:9Be sure that you do not say to yourself, ‘The year when debts will be canceled is near, so I do not want to lend anyone any money now, because he will not need to pay it back when that year comes.’ It would be evil to even think that. If you act in an unfriendly way toward a needy fellow Israeli, and give him nothing, he will cry out to Yahweh about you, and Yahweh will say that you have sinned by not helping that person.

Psalms 141:4Prevent me from wanting to do anything that is wrong, and from joining with wicked men when they want to do evil deeds [DOU]. Do not even allow me to share in eating delightful food with them!

Proverbs 23:3Do not want to eat a lot of his fine food, because he may be trying to trick you.

Daniel 1:8But I decided that I would not eat the kind of food that the king ate, or drink the wine that he drank, because that would make me ◄ritually defiled/unacceptable to God►. So I asked Ashpenaz to allow me to eat and drink other things.

Mark 7:22They commit adultery, they are greedy, they act maliciously, they deceive people. They act indecently, they envy people, they speak evil about others, they are proud, and they act foolishly.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:5-6

4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. As some are given to appetite ( v. 2 ) so others to covetousness, and those Solomon here takes to task. Men cheat themselves as much by setting their hearts on money (though it seems most substantial) as by setting them on dainties. Observe, I. How he dissuades the covetous man from toiling and tormenting himself ( v. 4 ). "Do… Read the whole commentary →

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