Proverbs 23:3
“Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.”
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Cross-References
“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.”
“Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:”
“Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:”
“So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.”
“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.”