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Proverbs 23:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food. "

Proverbs 23:3

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1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

2 put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.

3 Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

4 Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

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Proverbs 23:1

"When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;"

Proverbs 23:2

"put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite."

Proverbs 23:4

"Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint."

Proverbs 23:5

"Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky."

Proverbs 23:6

"Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,"

Proverbs 23:7

"for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you."

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