Berean Standard Bible

Proverbs 23:1-8

1When you sit down to dine with a ruler,consider carefully what is set before you,12and put a knife to your throatif you possess a great appetite.3Do not crave his delicacies,for that food is deceptive.

4Do not wear yourself out to get rich;be wise enough to restrain yourself.5When you glance at wealth, it disappears,for it makes wings for itselfand flies like an eagle to the sky.

6Do not eat the bread of a stingy man,2and do not crave his delicacies;7for he is keeping track,inwardly counting the cost.3“Eat and drink,” he says to you,but his heart is not with you.8You will vomit up what little you have eatenand waste your pleasant words.

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Notes

1. Proverbs 23:1 Or who is before you ↩
2. Proverbs 23:6 Literally of him whose eye is evil ↩
3. Proverbs 23:7 Or for as he calculates in his soul, so is he ↩

Commentaries on Proverbs 23

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
Rashi on Tanakh
Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
John Wesley’s Notes
Darby Translation Notes
Geneva Bible Translation Notes
Kingcomments
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
EGW Writings