Proverbs 23:6
Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ne comedas cum homine invido, et ne desideres cibos ejus :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ συνδείπνει ἀνδρὶ βασκάνῳ, μηδὲ ἐπιθύμει τῶν βρωμάτων αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַל תִּלְחַ֗ם אֶת לֶ֭חֶם רַ֣ע עָ֑יִן וְאַל תתאו לְמַטְעַמֹּתָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Man. Hebrew, "eat not bread of an evil eye," the envious, or rather the sordid miser.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.