7For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, said he to you; but his heart is not with you.


In Context

4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

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

7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, said he to you; but his heart is not with you.

8 The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Proverbs 23:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:7For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:7for he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:7Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:7For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:7For as he reckoneth within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. |Eat and drink!| he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7For as he hath thought in his soul, so is he, 'Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart is not with thee.