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Sagradas Escrituras

Proverbios 23:6

No comas pan de hombre de mal ojo, ni codicies sus manjares;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Company;   Guest;   Hospitality;   Hypocrisy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Association-Separation;   Associations;   Blindness-Vision;   Evil;   Eye, Evil;   Social Duties;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;   The Topic Concordance - Consideration;   Desire;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eye;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Evil Eye;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Eye (2);   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Dainties;   Meat;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dainties;   Evil Eye;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - AḥiḴar;   Bread;   Eye;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
No comas el pan del egoísta, ni desees sus manjares;
La Biblia Reina-Valera
No comas pan de hombre de mal ojo, Ni codicies sus manjares:
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
No comas pan de hombre de mal ojo, ni codicies sus manjares;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an: Proverbs 22:9, Deuteronomy 15:9, Deuteronomy 28:56, Matthew 20:15, Mark 7:22

desire: Proverbs 23:3, Psalms 141:4, Daniel 1:8-10

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:54 - his eye Proverbs 28:22 - an evil Isaiah 32:5 - nor Daniel 11:27 - shall be to 2 Corinthians 9:7 - not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye,.... A sordid covetous man, that grudges every bit that is eaten, in opposition to a man of a good eye, or a bountiful one, that is liberal and generous, Proverbs 22:9; if he invites to a meal, do not accept of it, sit not down at his table to eat with him:

neither desire thou his dainty meats; or savoury food, so as to lust after it; Proverbs 22:9- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A different danger from that of Proverbs 23:1. The hazard here is the hospitality of the purse-proud rich, avaricious or grudging even in his banquets.

Evil eye - Not with the later associations of a mysterious power for mischief, but simply, as in the margin ref. and in Matthew 20:15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 23:6. Of him that hath an evil eye — Never eat with a covetous or stingy man; if he entertains you at his own expense, he grudges every morsel you put in your mouth. This is well marked by the wise man in the next verse: "Eat and drink, saith he: but his heart is not with thee."


 
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