Proverbs 23:4-8

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁴ Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;^(A)
stop giving your attention to it.
⁵ 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.

⁶ Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,^[a](C)
and don’t desire his choice food,^(D)
7 for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.^[b](E)
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.^(F)
8 You will vomit the little you’ve eaten
and waste your pleasant words.