Proverbs 23:3 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 23:3

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.

WEB

Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

YLT

Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food.

DBT

Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food.

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Cross-references

6 verses on the floor

Proverbs 23:6
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
Psalms 141:4
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Ephesians 4:22
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Daniel 1:8
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

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Proverbs 1:19

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PRO 23:3DAN 1:8 PSA 141:4
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 23:3EPH 4:22 ROM 6:6
PRO 23:3EPH 4:22 JAS 1:21
PRO 23:3EPH 4:22 HEB 12:1
PRO 23:3EPH 4:22 1PE 2:1-2
PRO 23:3LUK 21:34 MRK 4:19
PRO 23:3DAN 1:8 EZE 4:13-14
PRO 23:3DAN 1:8 LEV 11:45-47

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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