Proverbs 23:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Ps 141:4 : 4 Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.
  • Deut 15:9 : 9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
  • Prov 23:3 : 3 Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
  • Dan 1:8-9 : 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9 Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs. 10 The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.
  • Prov 22:9 : 9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
  • Deut 28:56 : 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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,
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
  • Mark 7:22 : 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

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  • Prov 23:1-5
    5 verses
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    1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

    2 put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

    3 Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

    4 Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

    5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

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    21 To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

    22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

  • Prov 23:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

    8 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

  • 9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

  • 1 Don't be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:

  • 4 Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.

  • 25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • 30 Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

  • 25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

  • 9 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

  • 13 Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • 37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

  • 2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

  • 23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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    18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

    19 Don't fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:

  • 10 The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

  • 31 Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

  • 8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

  • 26 There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don't withhold.

  • 27 One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

  • 15 who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • 25 Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.'"

  • 17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

  • 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • 25 The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

  • 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

  • 20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

  • 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;

  • 20 Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

  • 7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • 22 You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

  • 17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

  • 8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

  • 7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

  • 54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;

  • 3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • 16 Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • 19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

  • 3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

  • 2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.