Proverbs 23:6 meaning and explanation
Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
Proverbs 23:6, Berean Standard Bible
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This verse continues the fatherly instruction running through Proverbs 23, where a wise teacher warns his son about the hidden cost of certain invitations. Here the host is a stingy man, literally one whose eye is evil, a Hebrew idiom for a grudging, calculating person.
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