Proverbs 23:6
What meaning of the proverbs 23:6 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 23:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:"
What does Proverbs 23:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:"
Verse Proverbs 23:6. _OF_ HIM THAT HATH _AN EVIL EYE_] Never eat with a covetous or stingy man; if he entertains you at his own expense, he grudges every morsel you put in your mouth. This is well mar...
A different danger from that of Proverbs 23:1. The hazard here is the hospitality of the purse-proud rich, avaricious or grudging even in his banquets. EVIL EYE - Not with the later associations of a...
CHAPTER 23 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED The opening proverbs of this chapter treat of self-restraint in curbing the appetite and give manners to be observed in the presence of a superior. Warnings against r...
It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what (_m...
_evil_ i.e. _grudging_. See Proverbs 22:9 note, and comp. Deuteronomy 15:9; Matthew 20:15. _dainty meats_ Better, DAINTIES....
CHAPTER 23 TEXT Proverbs 23:1-12 1. When thou sittest to eat with a ruler Consider diligently him that is before thee; 2. And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite. 3....
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: AN EVIL EYE. Contrast "a bountiful eye," . An envious, grudging, illiberal spirit ()....
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 23 V1 When a ruler invites you for a meal, be careful! Think, before you eat! V2 If you might be greedy, then hold your knife near your neck!...
HIM THAT HATH AN EVIL EYE. — A sordid, grudging temper....
אַל ־תִּלְחַ֗ם אֶת ־לֶ֭חֶם רַ֣ע עָ֑יִן וְ אַל־_תִּ֝תְאָ֗יו_† לְ מַטְעַמֹּתָֽיו׃...
CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6 "Withhold not correction from the...
At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...
Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an (e) evil eye, neither desire thou his delicacies: (e) That is, covetous, as contrary a good eye is taken for liberal as in (Proverbs 22:9)....
_Man. Hebrew, "eat not bread of an evil eye," the envious, or rather the sordid miser._...
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitf...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be follow...
EAT THOU NOT THE BREAD OF [HIM THAT HATH] AN EVIL EYE,.... A sordid covetous man, that grudges every bit that is eaten, in opposition to a man of a good eye, or a bountiful one, that is liberal and ge...
Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: Ver. 6. _Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye._] That is, of a miserly muckworm, that wishe...
_Eat not thou the bread of him that hath an evil eye_ Of an envious or covetous man, who secretly grudges thee the meat which is set before thee. _For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he_ Thou must...
V. 6. EAT THOU NOT THE BREAD OF HIM THAT HATH AN EVIL EYE, of a jealous and covetous man, NEITHER DESIRE THOU HIS DAINTY MEATS, which are held out before his guest as a sort of bait, not with open kin...
OF HIM THAT HATH AN EVIL EYE; of the envious or covetous man, who secretly grudgeth thee the meat which he sets before thee, as this phrase is used, PROVERBS 28:22 MATTHEW 20:15; as, on the contrary,...
Proverbs 23:6 eat H3898 (H8799) bread H3899 miser H7451 H5869 desire H183 (H8691) delicacies H4303 an - Proverbs 22:9; Deuteronomy 15:9, Deuteronomy 28:56; Matthew 20:15;...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The indulgence of the appetites is a sin that easily besets us. We should apprehend ourselves to be in danger when...
Proverbs 23:1. _When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,_ and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, _put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite._ How many have stained...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 23:6. HIM THAT HATH AN EVIL EYE—_i.e._, the jealous man. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 23:6_ FEIGNED GENEROSITY I. MEN’S INWARD LIFE AND FEELINGS ARE OFTEN...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 23:1 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his talents had made the guest of kings....
Now the next three verses are coupled together. When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite. Be not de...
Daniel 1:8; Deuteronomy 15:9; Deuteronomy 28:56; Mark 7:22; Matthew 20:15; Proverbs 22:9; Proverbs 23:3; Psalms 141:4...
Evil eye — Of the envious or covetous man....