Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful meat. Intimacy with an absolute king is a hazardous privilege. His dainties may injure your body if you are not on your guard. A hasty word of undue familiarity and irreverent forwardness may cost you your life. Sir 9:13 'Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill ... and if thou come unto him, make no fault, lest he take away thy life presently; remember that thou goest in the midst, of snares etc.,' 'His dainties are deceitful meat,' because they do not afford the solid delight which they promise: they delight at first, but are really and finally hurtful. They please the appetite, but soon bite as a snake (Proverbs 20:1); leading him who indulges too freely in them to betray his inmost thoughts, to his own ruin.