Proverbs 23:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ for like a hair in the throat, so are they. “Eat and drink!” they say to you, but they do not mean it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. As one who reckons, he says to you, eat and drink, yet his heart is not with you [but is grudging the cost].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.

Common English Bible

⁷ because they are like a hair in the throat. They say to you, “Eat and drink!” but they don’t mean it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For, like a seer and an interpreter of dreams, he presumes what he does not know. "Eat and drink," he will say to you; and his mind is not with you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.

Proverbs 23:7 Cross References

Psalm 12:2

They utter lies to each other; with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.

Psalm 55:21

with speech smoother than butter but with a heart set on war, with words that were softer than oil but in fact were drawn swords.

Proverbs 19:22

What is desirable in a person is loyalty, and it is better to be poor than a liar.

Proverbs 26:23

Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are smooth lips with an evil heart.

Proverbs 26:24

An enemy dissembles in speaking while harboring deceit within;

Proverbs 26:25

when an enemy speaks graciously, do not believe it, for there are seven abominations concealed within;

Daniel 11:27

The two kings, their minds bent on evil, shall sit at one table and exchange lies. But it shall not succeed, for there remains an end at the time appointed.

Luke 7:39

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”

Judges 16:15

Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me three times now and have not told me what makes your strength so great.”