Solomon
Proverbs 23:3KJV·traditional attribution
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
John Gill Reformed Baptist
Be not desirous of his dainties,.... His savoury food, which is very grateful to the taste, his rich provisions and royal dainties; do not lust after them, as the word (s) signifies, in an immoderate way, as the Israelites lusted after the fleshpots in Egypt: these may be lawfully desired, but not sinfully lusted after; and in feeding on them nature may be satisfied, and...
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed
are deceitful meat--though well tasted, injurious.
Geneva Bible Notes Reformed
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful food. (c) For often the rich when they bid their inferiors to their tables, it is not for the love they bear them, but for their own secret purposes.