Proverbs 23:6 - The Message Don’t accept a meal from a tightwad; don’t expect anything special. He’ll be as stingy with you as he is with himself; he’ll say, “Eat! Drink!” but won’t mean a word of it. His miserly serving will turn your stomach when you realize the meal’s a sham. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainty meats: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Eat not the bread of him who has a hard, grudging, and envious eye, neither desire his dainty foods; American Standard Version (1901) Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties: Common English Bible Don’t eat food with stingy people; don’t long for their delicacies, Catholic Public Domain Version Do not eat with an envious man, and do not desire his foods. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats: |