Proverbs 23:1-8
Amplified Bible
On Life and Conduct
23 When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
Consider carefully what is [set] before you;
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For you will put a knife to your throat
If you are a man of great appetite.
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Do not desire his delicacies,
For it is deceptive food [offered to you with questionable motives].
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Do not weary yourself [with the overwhelming desire] to gain wealth;
Cease from your own understanding of it.(A)
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When you set your eyes on wealth, it is [suddenly] gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies to the heavens.
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Do not eat the bread of a selfish man,
Or desire his delicacies;
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For as he thinks in his heart, so is he [in behavior—one who manipulates].
He says to you, “Eat and drink,”
Yet his heart is not with you [but it is begrudging the cost].
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The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up,
And you will waste your compliments.
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