Proverbs 23:6
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
5 When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
- KJV
- Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
- WEB
- Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
- ASV
- Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:
- DARBY
- Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.
- BLB
- Do not eat the bread of one evil of eye, and do not mark out his delicacies.
- ÅB
- Et ikke den misunneliges brød, og vær ikke lysten etter hans fine mat!
- OTB
- Spis ikke brødet til en motvillig vert, og ønsk deg ikke hans delikatesser;
- B1930
- Et ikke den misunneliges brød, og vær ikke lysten efter hans fine mat!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 141:4
Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.
Read in contextProverbs 23:3
Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
Read in contextDaniel 1:8–10
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 15:9
Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Read in contextMatthew 20:15
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
Read in contextProverbs 28:22
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:56
The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
Read in contextProverbs 22:9
A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
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