Proverbs 23:6-8
Lexham English Bible
6 Do not eat the bread of the stingy,[a]
and do not desire his delicacies.
7 For, like hair in his throat,[b] so it is.[c]
“Eat and drink!” he will say to you,
but his heart will not be with you.
8 Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up,
and you will waste your pleasant words.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:6 Literally “stingy of eye”
- Proverbs 23:7 Literally “soul,” or “inner self”
- Proverbs 23:7 Or “is he”
Proverbs 23:6-8
New Living Translation
6 Don’t eat with people who are stingy;
don’t desire their delicacies.
7 They are always thinking about how much it costs.[a]
“Eat and drink,” they say, but they don’t mean it.
8 You will throw up what little you’ve eaten,
and your compliments will be wasted.
Footnotes
- 23:7 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
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