Proverbs 23:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainty meats:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Eat not the bread of him who has a hard, grudging, and envious eye, neither desire his dainty foods;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:

Common English Bible

⁶ Don’t eat food with stingy people; don’t long for their delicacies,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Do not eat with an envious man, and do not desire his foods.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:

Proverbs 23:6 Cross References

Psalm 141:4

Incline not my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties!

Proverbs 22:9

He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Proverbs 23:3

Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

Proverbs 28:22

A miserly man hastens after wealth, and does not know that want will come upon him.

Matthew 20:15

Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’

Mark 7:22

coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye be hostile to your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and it be sin in you.

Deuteronomy 28:56

The most tender and delicately bred woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will grudge to the husband of her bosom, to her son and to her daughter,