Proverbs 23:6-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 Do not eat the bread of the stingy;
do not desire their delicacies,(A)
7 for like a hair in the throat, so are they.[a]
“Eat and drink!” they say to you,
but they do not mean it.(B)
8 You will vomit up the little you have eaten,
and you will waste your pleasant words.
Footnotes
- 23.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Proverbs 23:6-8
English Standard Version
6 (A)Do not eat the bread of a man who is (B)stingy;[a]
(C)do not desire his delicacies,
7 for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.[b]
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
but his (D)heart is not with you.
8 You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten,
and waste your pleasant words.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:6 Hebrew whose eye is evil
- Proverbs 23:7 Or for as he calculates in his soul, so is he
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