
Text -- Proverbs 23:6 (NET)




Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics



collapse allCommentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)
Wesley -> Pro 23:6
Of the envious or covetous man.
JFB -> Pro 23:6-8; Pro 23:6-8
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.

Clarke -> Pro 23:6
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

collapse allCommentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)
Barnes -> Pro 23:6
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. ...
Poole -> Pro 23:6
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...
Haydock -> Pro 23:6
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
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.

expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Pro 23:6
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
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...

expand allCommentary -- Verse Range Notes
MHCC -> Pro 23:6-8
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
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
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...
