Proverbs 23:4-8
Legacy Standard Bible
4 (A)Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,
(B)Because of your understanding, cease!
5 Do you make your eyes fly up to see it? But it is not there!
Because (C)it certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
6 (D)Do not eat the bread of [a]a (E)selfish man,
And do not desire his delicacies;
7 For as he [b]calculates in his soul, so he is.
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
But (F)his heart is not with you.
8 You will (G)vomit up [c]the morsel you have eaten,
And you will corrupt your pleasant words.
Notas al pie
- Proverbs 23:6 Lit an evil eye
- Proverbs 23:7 Lit reckons in his soul
- Proverbs 23:8 Lit your
Proverbs 23:4-8
Common English Bible
4 Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich;
be smart enough to stop.
5 When your eyes fly to wealth
it is gone; it grows wings
like an eagle and flies heavenward.
6 Don’t eat food with stingy people;
don’t long for their delicacies,
7 because they are like a hair in the throat.[a]
They say to you, “Eat and drink!”
but they don’t mean it.
8 You will eat scraps and vomit them out.
You will waste your pleasant words.
Notas al pie
- Proverbs 23:7 LXX; Heb uncertain
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