Inwardly Calculating
August 11, 2022
“Inwardly Calculating”
Blessings folk!
A very practical, disconcerting, Proverb here.
Pro 23:6-8
Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;
do not desire his delicacies,
for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.
You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten,
and waste your pleasant words.
ESV
The Word tells us to not “buy into” the false hospitality of someone that we know is stingy.
Someone who thinks more of his stuff than of people.
Someone who, though he feigns “eat and drink” all you want, really is cringing with every bite that is “taken from him”.
He is inward calculating how much it costs.
His heart is not with you.
Vomit up the morsels?
Does this mean that he might give you the food that is “past expiration date” and you might pay for it?
Don’t waste your pleasant words and time with such a one.
The NLT states…
Pro 23:6-8
Don’t eat with people who are stingy;
don’t desire their delicacies.
They are always thinking about how much it costs.
“Eat and drink,” they say, but they don’t mean it.
You will throw up what little you’ve eaten,
and your compliments will be wasted.
NLT
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