Focused Passage

Proverbs 23:6-8

Guarded Desire, Wise Discipline, the Fear of the LORD, and Warnings Against Envy, Gluttony, Lust, and Drunkenness

The chapter moves through warnings about appetite and wealth, discernment at corrupt tables, protection of boundaries and the fatherless, heart-applied instruction and discipline, parental joy, fear of the LORD over envy, warnings against gluttony and drunkenness, honoring parents, buying truth, sexual purity, and a final extended portrait of wine's deceptive destruction.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

6 Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;

7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

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References and Original Words

Verse 6

Cross-references

2 Corinthians 9:7 Classic cross-references Proverbs 23:3 Classic cross-references Proverbs 28:22 Classic cross-references Psalms 141:4 Classic cross-references Daniel 1:8 Classic cross-references

Original words

Do not אַל־ H408 Adverb eat תִּלְחַ֗ם H3898 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker the bread לֶ֭חֶם H3899 Noun - masculine singular construct of a stingy man רַ֣ע H7451 Adjective - masculine singular construct . . . עָ֑יִן H5869 Noun - common singular and do not וְאַל־ H408 Conjunctive waw | Adverb crave תִּתְאָו H8376 Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect Jussive - second person masculine singular his delicacies לְמַטְעַמֹּתָֽיו׃ H4303 Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular

BSB notes

Literally of him whose eye is evil

Verse 7

Cross-references

Psalms 12:2 Classic cross-references Psalms 55:21 Classic cross-references Judges 16:15 Classic cross-references Matthew 9:3 Classic cross-references Luke 11:37 Classic cross-references

Original words

for כִּ֤י׀ H3588 Conjunction - כְּמוֹ־ H3644 Preposition he is keeping track שָׁעַ֥ר H8176 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular inwardly בְּנַפְשׁ֗וֹ H5315 Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular [counting the cost] כֶּ֫ן־ H3651 Adverb . . . ה֥וּא H1931 Pronoun - third person masculine singular Eat אֱכֹ֣ל H398 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular and drink וּ֭שְׁתֵה H8354 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular he says יֹ֣אמַר H559 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular to you לָ֑ךְ Preposition | second person feminine singular but his heart וְ֝לִבּ֗וֹ H3820 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular is not בַּל־ H1077 Adverb with you עִמָּֽךְ׃ H5973 Preposition | second person feminine singular

BSB notes

Or for as he calculates in his soul, so is he

Verse 8

Cross-references

Job 20:15 Classic cross-references

Original words

You will vomit up תְקִיאֶ֑נָּה H6958 Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person feminine singular what little פִּֽתְּךָ־ H6595 Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular you have eaten אָכַ֥לְתָּ H398 Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular and waste וְ֝שִׁחַ֗תָּ H7843 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular your pleasant הַנְּעִימִֽים׃ H5273 Article | Adjective - masculine plural words דְּבָרֶ֥יךָ H1697 Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular

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