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Text -- Proverbs 23:6 (NET)

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23:6 Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Hypocrisy | Hospitality | Guest | EVIL EYE | DAINTIES; DAINTY (MEATS) | Associations | more
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NET Notes , Geneva Bible

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MHCC , Matthew Henry , Keil-Delitzsch , Constable

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Pro 23:6 - -- Of the envious or covetous man.

Of the envious or covetous man.

JFB: Pro 23:6-8 - -- Beware of deceitful men, whose courtesies even you will repent of having accepted.

Beware of deceitful men, whose courtesies even you will repent of having accepted.

JFB: Pro 23:6-8 - -- Or purpose (Pro 22:9; Deu 15:9; Mat 6:23).

Or purpose (Pro 22:9; Deu 15:9; Mat 6:23).

Clarke: Pro 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 ...

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 marked by the wise man in the next verse: "Eat and drink, saith he: but his heart is not with thee."

TSK: Pro 23:6 - -- an : Pro 22:9; Deu 15:9, Deu 28:56; Mat 20:15; Mar 7:22 desire : Pro 23:3; Psa 141:4; Dan 1:8-10

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Pro 23:6 - -- A different danger from that of Pro 23:1. The hazard here is the hospitality of the purse-proud rich, avaricious or grudging even in his banquets. ...

A different danger from that of Pro 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 mysterious power for mischief, but simply, as in the margin ref. and in Mat 20:15.

Poole: Pro 23:6 - -- 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, P...

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, Pro 28:22 Mat 20:15 ; as, on the contrary, a liberal man is said to have a good eye , Pro 22:9 .

Haydock: Pro 23:6 - -- Man. Hebrew, "eat not bread of an evil eye," the envious, or rather the sordid miser.

Man. Hebrew, "eat not bread of an evil eye," the envious, or rather the sordid miser.

Gill: Pro 23:6 - -- 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 goo...

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 generous, Pro 22:9; if he invites to a meal, do not accept of it, sit not down at his table to eat with him:

neither desire thou his dainty meats; or savoury food, so as to lust after it; See Gill on Pro 23:3.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 23:6 Heb “an evil eye.” This is the opposite of the “good eye” which meant the generous man. The “evil eye” refers to a...

Geneva Bible: Pro 23:6 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 t...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

MHCC: Pro 23:6-8 - --Do not make thyself burdensome to any, especially those not sincere. When we are called by God to his feast, and to let our souls delight themselves, ...

Matthew Henry: Pro 23:6-8 - -- Those that are voluptuous and given to appetite (Pro 23:2) are glad to be where there is good cheer stirring, and those that are covetous and saving...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 23:6-8 - -- There now follows a proverb with unequally measured lines, perhaps a heptastich: 6 Eat not the bread of the jealous, And let not thyself lust afte...

Constable: Pro 22:17--25:1 - --III. WISE SAYINGS 22:17--24:34 A third major section of the Book of Proverbs begins with 22:17. This is clear fr...

Constable: Pro 22:17--24:23 - --A. Thirty Sayings of the Wise 22:17-24:22 Many scholars have called attention to the similarities betwee...

Constable: Pro 22:22--23:12 - --The first 10 sayings 22:22-23:11 22:22-23 Note the chiastic structure in these four lines that unifies the thought of the passage: violence, litigatio...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 23 (Chapter Introduction) Overview

Poole: Proverbs 23 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 23

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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