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Proverbs 23:6
Proverbs 23:6 is verse 6 of Proverbs chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
Literally of him whose eye is evil
King James Version
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
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 23:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
6 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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 22:9A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Deuteronomy 15:9Be 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.
Deuteronomy 28:56The 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
Matthew 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
Mark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
Proverbs 23:3Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
Psalms 141:4Do 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.
Daniel 1:8But 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.
Daniel 1:9Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official,
Daniel 1:10but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”