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Do Not Dine with a Stingy Man[a]

Do not dine with a stingy man
    or hanker for his delicacies.
For, like a hair,
    they will stick in your throat.
“Eat and drink,” he will say to you,
    but he does not mean it in his heart.
You will vomit up the little you have eaten
    and find that your compliments have been wasted.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:6 What good is accepting an invitation that is given out of envy rather than friendship!