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Don’t eat the food of ·selfish [stingy; L evil eye] people;
    don’t ·be greedy [long] for their ·fine foods [delicacies].

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Saying 9

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
    do not crave his delicacies;(A)

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Do not eat the bread of (A)a[a] miser,
Nor desire his delicacies;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:6 Lit. one who has an evil eye

(A)Do not eat the bread of [a]a (B)selfish man,
And do not desire his delicacies;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:6 Lit an evil eye