Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;(A)
because you know better, stop!
As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,(B)
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.

Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,[a](C)
and don’t desire his choice food,(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 23:6 Lit eat bread of an evil eye

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