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


In Context

4 Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:

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

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

9 Don't speak 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:7For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, said he to you; but his heart is not with you.