(A)Do not toil to acquire wealth;
    (B)be discerning enough to desist.
When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
    (C)for suddenly it sprouts wings,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.
(D)Do not eat the bread of a man who is (E)stingy;[a]
    (F)do not desire his delicacies,
for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.[b]
    “Eat and drink!” he says to you,
    but his (G)heart is not with you.
You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten,
    and waste your pleasant words.

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Notas al pie

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

(A)Do not weary yourself to gain wealth;
[a](B)Stop dwelling on it.
[b]When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For (C)wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

(D)Do not eat the bread of [c]a (E)selfish person;
Or desire his delicacies;
For as he [d]thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, “Eat and drink!”
But (F)his heart is not with you.
You will (G)vomit up [e]the morsel you have eaten
And waste your [f]compliments.

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 23:4 Lit Refrain from your understanding of it
  2. Proverbs 23:5 Lit Will your eyes fly upon it and it is not?
  3. Proverbs 23:6 Lit an evil eye
  4. Proverbs 23:7 Lit reckons in his soul
  5. Proverbs 23:8 Lit your
  6. Proverbs 23:8 Lit pleasant words