Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
KJV
Parallel translations
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4 additional translationsASV
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:
WEB
Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
YLT
Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,
DBT
Eat thou not the food of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — 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.