Verse 6

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

Referenced Verses

  • 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.