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Proverbs 23:6

World English Bible

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,
and don’t crave his delicacies:

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Proverbs 23:6 in other translations

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:

Proverbs 23:6 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 23:6 in context

  1. 4Don’t weary yourself to be rich.
    In your wisdom, show restraint.
  2. 5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?
    For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
  3. 6Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,
    and don’t crave his delicacies:
  4. 7for as he thinks about the cost, so he is.
    “Eat and drink!” he says to you,
    but his heart is not with you.
  5. 8The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up,
    and lose your good words.