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[[File:dainties.jpg|right|thumb|'''"Be not desirous of his [[dainties]]<Ref name="dainties">{{04303}}</Ref>: for they [are] deceitful meat."''' [[Proverbs 23]]:3<Ref name="proverbs23">Proverbs 23:1 ¶  When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee:  2  And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite.
3  Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful meat.
4 ¶  Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
5  Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6 ¶  Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
7  For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.
8  The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
9 ¶  Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
10 ¶  Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11  For their redeemer [is] mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.</Ref><Br>Desiring [[benefits]] from rulers is desiring gains. “He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.” [[Proverbs 15]]:27 <Br> “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the [[sloth]]ful shall be under tribute.” [[Proverbs 12]]:24 ]]

== Dainties of Rulers ==


Why would the [[dainties]]  of a ruler in Proverbs 23 be called ''deceitful meats'' and associated with [[workers of iniquity]].<Ref name="workiniquity">{{workiniquity}}</Ref> And why does Proverbs go on to tell us not to eat the bread of those who have an ''evil eye''?<Ref>: [[Proverbs 23]]:3  Be not desirous of his '''dainties <04303>''': for they [are] deceitful meat.'4 ¶  Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
5  Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
: [[Proverbs 23]]:6  Eat thou not the '''bread of [him that hath] an evil eye''', neither desire thou his '''dainty meats <04303>'' 7  For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee. 8  The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. 9 ¶  Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. 10 ¶  Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless::</Ref> 

The word ''dainties'' in the [[Hebrew]] is  ''matam'' (MemAyinTetMem) and is also translated ''savoury meat''<Ref>Genesis 27:4  And make me '''savoury meat <04303>''', such as I love, and bring [it] to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
: Genesis 27:7  Bring me venison, and make me '''savoury meat <04303>''', that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
: Genesis 27:9  Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them '''savoury meat <04303>''' for thy father, such as he loveth:
: Genesis 27:14  And he went, and fetched, and brought [them] to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat <04303>, such as his father loved.
: Genesis 27:17  And she gave the savoury meat <04303> and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
: Genesis 27:31  And he also had made '''savoury meat <04303>''', and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.</Ref>

There are several places where the word dainties appears in the English text.<Ref name="dainties">Genesis 49:20  Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
: [[Psalms 141]]:4  Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
: [[Proverbs 23]]:3  Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful meat.</Ref>

Why are we told not to eat them and if we have an ''appetite'' for them to put a ''[[knife]] to our throat''?

Not just an "[[appetite]]" but an ''[[appetite]] for the [[Benefactors|kings dainties]]''. Those ''dainties'' are the [[wages of unrighteousness]] because those ''deceitful meats'' are [[benefits]] provided by men who [[exercise authority]] one over the other. You are become entitled to the [[benefits]] provided by rulers of [[force]], [[fear]], and [[fealty]] if you apply for their offered [[benefits]] of [[free bread]] through systems of "[[legal charity]]". But the rulers may gain at the same time an entitlement to your compliance. obedience, and allegiance.

Such systems or social safety nets through rulers are opposed to the [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]] preached by [[Christ]], [[Moses]] and the [[Prophets]] because they often involve [[consent]] that may establish systems of [[servitude]]. 

That may lead to a system where you actually own nothing because the whole nation has [[one purse]]. We were told not to go that way in [[Proverbs 23]]. There are warnings about this in the Old and New Testaments, from the prophets and in the [[Doctrines of Jesus]].

What is keeping you from [[repent]]ing is often the [[appetite]] for [[benefits]] at the expense of your neighbor through the [[covetous practices]] of the [[welfare state]].



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"The [[sloth]]ful shall be under [[tribute]]" [[Proverbs 12]]:24 

[[Sloth]]ful in the [[weightier matters]] which includes the care that comes with [[Pure Religion]] which is dependent upon [[fervent charity]] and love for one another as opposed to the [[force]] and [[fear]] of "[[Legal charity]]" which "kills [[care]]" and results in [[fealty]] that when coupled with debt eventually makes the people [[merchandise]] and will [[curse children]].

The modern Church seems to prefer to sit in darkness like the Pharisees making the word of God to none effect because of their dependence upon the [[welfare state]] for their [[daily bread]] in what should be called [[public religion]].

"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities" [[Plutarch]]'s Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) In America that was [[FDR]] and the [[New Deal]]. In [[Babylon]] it was [[Nimrod]]. Since the idea of men who [[exercise authority]] one over the other was not a [[New Deal]] except to Americans who had for years opposed most forms of "[[Legal charity]]" as a matter of moral principles explained by Horatio Bunce to [[David Crockett]].

The real [[Jesus]] had the answer for those who have the ''ears to hear and the eyes to see'' and are willing to [[Repent]] and seek the [[kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]]