Proverbs 23:6
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.
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet 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
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Read in contextProverbs 23:3
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Read in contextDaniel 1:8–10
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
Read in contextMatthew 20:15
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Read in contextProverbs 28:22
He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:56
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
Read in contextProverbs 22:9
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
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