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Proverbs 23:6
Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
Proverbs 23:6 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Proverbs 23:6 in other translations
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
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In context
3 Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.
4 Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
5 Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.
6 Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
7 Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.
8 The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
9 Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
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