Proverbs 23:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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.

Proverbs 23:6

6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: