When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
    (A)for suddenly it sprouts wings,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.
(B)Do not eat the bread of a man who is (C)stingy;[a]
    (D)do not desire his delicacies,
for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.[b]
    “Eat and drink!” he says to you,
    but his (E)heart is not with you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:6 Hebrew whose eye is evil
  2. Proverbs 23:7 Or for as he calculates in his soul, so is he

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