Proverbs 23:6 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:6

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 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, that they may spare at home, will be glad to get a dinner at another man's table; and therefore both are here advised not to be forward to accept of every man's invitation, but especially not to thrust themselves in uninvited. Observe, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 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 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:6: Beware of deceitful men, whose courtesies even you will repent of having accepted. evil eye--or purpose (Pro 22:9; Deu 15:9; Mat 6:23).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 23:6: Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his delicacies: (e) That is, covetous, as contrary a good eye is taken for liberal as in .