| Proverbs 23:3 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Do not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive food. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Do not crave his delicacies, because this is food that deceives you.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. |
| ASV: | Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food. |
| BBE: | Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit. |
| DBY: | Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful food. |
| ERV: | Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful meat. |
| JPS: | Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful food. |
| WBS: | Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food. |
| WEB: | Don't be desirous of his dainties, seeing they are deceitful food. |
| YLT: | Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it is lying food. |
| Proverbs 23:3 Cross References |
| XREF: | Psalm 141:4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice deeds of wickedness With men who do iniquity; And do not let me eat of their delicacies.
Proverbs 23:6 Do not eat the bread of a selfish man, Or desire his delicacies;
Daniel 1:5 The king appointed for them a daily ration from the king's choice food and from the wine which he drank, and appointed that they should be educated three years, at the end of which they were to enter the king's personal service.
Daniel 1:8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king's choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties: {c} for they [are] deceitful food.
(c) For often the rich when they bid their inferiors to their tables, it is not for the love they bear them, but for their own secret purposes. |
| WES: | 23:3 Deceitful - They do not yield thee that satisfaction which thou didst expect from them. |
| MHC: | 23:1-3 God's restraints of the appetite only say, Do thyself no harm. 4,5. Be not of those that will be rich. The things of this world are not happiness and a portion for a soul; those that hold them ever so fast, cannot hold them always, cannot hold them long. 6-8. Do not make thyself burdensome to any, especially those not sincere. When we are called by God to his feast, and to let our souls delight themselves, Isa 25:6; 55:2, we may safely partake of the Bread of life. 9. It is our duty to take all fit occasions to speak of Divine things; but if what a wise man says will not be heard, let him hold his peace. 10,11. The fatherless are taken under God's special protection. He is their Redeemer, who will take their part; and he is mighty, almighty. |
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