THEOSISProverbs 23:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
אַל־תִּלְחַ֗ם אֶת־לֶ֭חֶם רַ֣ע עָ֑יִן וְאַל־תתאו תִּ֝תְאָ֗יו לְמַטְעַמֹּתָֽיו׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 141 (140):4
- Prov 23:3Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.
- Dan 1:8But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with the king's table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested the master of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.
- Dan 1:10And the prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel: I fear my lord, the king, who hath appointed you meat and drink: who if he should see your faces leaner than those of the other youths, your equals, you shall endanger my head to the king.
- Deut 15:9Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.
- Prov 28:22A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.
- Deut 28:56The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her daughter,
- Matt 20:15Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good?