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Proverbs 23:4-8
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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.

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  1. Proverbs 23:6 Lit an evil eye
  2. Proverbs 23:7 Lit reckons in his soul
  3. Proverbs 23:8 Lit your
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Proverbs 23:4-8
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4 (A)Do not toil to acquire wealth;
    (B)be discerning enough to desist.
5 When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
    (C)for suddenly it sprouts wings,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.
6 (D)Do not eat the bread of a man who is (E)stingy;[a]
    (F)do not desire his delicacies,
7 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.
8 You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten,
    and waste your pleasant words.

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Footnotes

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