Don’t let me want to do bad things.\par Stop me from joining bad people\par when they do wrong.\par Don’t let me share the things\par those bad people enjoy doing.\par
Proverbs 23:6 - Easy To Read Version Don’t eat with a selfish person. And stay away from the special foods he likes. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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: |
Don’t let me want to do bad things.\par Stop me from joining bad people\par when they do wrong.\par Don’t let me share the things\par those bad people enjoy doing.\par
A person who gives freely will be blessed. He will be blessed because he shares his food with poor people.
And don’t eat too much of the fine food he serves. It might be a trick.
A selfish person only wants to get rich. That person does not realize that he is very close to being poor.
I can do what I want with my own money. Are you jealous because I am good \{to those people\}?’
adultery, {\cf2\super [88]} greed, doing bad things to people, lying, doing things that are morally wrong, jealousy, saying bad things about people, proud boasting, and foolish living.
“Don’t ever refuse to help someone simply because the seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near. Don’t let an evil thought like that enter your mind. You must never have bad thoughts about a person that needs help. You must not refuse to help him. If you don’t help that poor person, then he will complain to the Lord against you. And the Lord will find you guilty of sin.
“Even the most gentle and kind woman among you will become cruel. She might be a lady so gentle and delicate that she never put her feet on the ground to walk anywhere. But she will become cruel to her husband that she loves so much. And she will be cruel to her own son and daughter.