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For, like hair in his throat,[a] so it is.[b]
    “Eat and drink!” he will say to you,
    but his heart will not be with you.
Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up,
    and you will waste your pleasant words.
In the ears of a fool do not speak,
    for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:7 Literally “soul,” or “inner self”
  2. Proverbs 23:7 Or “is he”