Proverbs 23:6-8 (ESV)
6 Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;
do not desire his delicacies,
7 for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.
8 You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten,
and waste your pleasant words.
According to Saying 9, it’s never wise to invite yourself to eat at another’s expense, especially if your host is stingy. The tightfisted person who is anxiously seeking to get rich will view your meal in terms of her dollars and cents. To appear hospitable, she may encourage you to dine at her table, but inwardly she despises you and every bite that you take. Even if she offers fine food and drink, exercise wisdom by restraining yourself. Your compliments and words of gratitude will be useless as you praise the one who inwardly detests you and your appetite. Learn self-control by paying for what you consume with your own resources. Be kind to the greedy woman, but refrain from indulging in anything that may cause her to abhor you. Keep your behavior honorable, so that when you are spoken against later, no one will have anything negative to say about you or the God you serve.